Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development 5th Edition by Lester Rowntree, Martin Lewis, Marie Price and William Wyckoff emphasizes the connections and diversity between people and locations-challenging students to compare and distinction the areas of the world within thematically organized regional chapters.
The Fifth Edition is totally up to date with the newest maps and data and a greater give attention to the impacts of globalization. Related environmental, climate change, and political developments are included all through, supporting the authors’ aim of serving to to create extra knowledgeable, geographically aware students.
With a focus on globalization, the text acknowledges both the homogenizing and diversifying forces which can be inherent to the globalization process-essentially the most basic reorganization of the planet’s socioeconomic, cultural, and geopolitical structure since the Industrial Revolution.
Thematic chapter organization permits students to check specific topics between regions quite than memorizing details in a rustic-by-nation vacuum. These 5 themes organize every regional chapter: Environmental Geography, Population and Settlement, Cultural Coherence and Diversity, Geopolitical Framework, Financial and Social Development.
Eight consistent thematic maps in every regional chapter assist students’ understanding and their means to make comparisons between regions. As well as, every regional chapter also has 7 or 8 different maps illustrating such main themes as urban growth, ethnic tensions, social improvement, and linkages to the global economy.
Sidebar essays in each regional chapter help to additional evaluate and contrast each area, highlighting setting and politics, urban areas, results of global forces on local locations, geographic tools, transregional hyperlinks, and migration. Throughout each chapter, key phrases and ideas are in boldface type, defined in context, then listed again on the end of the chapter as a research guide. The entire array of key terms is collected in the book’s glossary.
The Assessment Questions and Pondering Geographically questions at the end of every chapter give students a possibility to use chapter ideas and material inside lively learning analysis framework. A listing of Regional Novels and Films and a Bibliography seems on the finish of every chapter, giving instructors and college students alternatives to further explore regions by way of numerous media.
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