Global Issues: An Introduction

by JohnL.Seitz (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.29

  The new edition of this text has been fully updated throughout and features expanded sections on issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and energy. Global Issues is an introduction to the nature and background of some of the central issues - economic, social, political, environmental - of modern times. It will provide the basis for a stimulating course for beginning students in departments of geography, politics, sociology and environmental science.The book opens with an overview of the complex political, cultural and natural origins of world problems and of why some nations are rich and some are poor. The author then discusses in depth such issues as population growth, hunger, the extinction of species, global warming and climatic change, ozone depletion, energy conservation, deforestation, and the misuse of technology. Highly illustrated with diagrams and photographs, this volume contains guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and includes suggestions for discussion and studying the material.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.59

  Global Issues, Third Edition is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life. * Offers a unified perspective on a complex range of global issues in a variety of societies, both developed and developing* Includes new sections on foreign aid and development assistance, terrorism, the relationship between geography and wealth and poverty, food and the overweight, and the Millennium Development Goals* Features an updated and expanded section on climate change, as well as a new glossary* Illustrates key topics and issues with diagrams and photographs* Provides guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and suggestions for discussing and studying the material