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Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-631-22286-6

August 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

540 pages

Description
This volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions of change at every geographical scale from the global to the local.
About the Author
Ron Johnston is Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Peter J. Taylor is Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough.

Michael Watts is Chancellor's Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Features

  • Examines globalisation from a wide range of perspectives.

  • Includes essays by 28 of the world's leading geographers.

  • Gives students a sense of the relevance of geography in today's world.

  • For the second edition new material has been added on a range of issues, including world trade, geopolitics, consumption, environmental governance and cyberspace.

  • Existing chapters have been revised or rewritten.