Global Issues: An Introduction - Softcover

Seitz, John L.; Hite, Kristen A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047065564X ISBN 13: 9780470655641

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 2012

Synopsis

Extensively revised and updated, the new Fourth Edition of Global Issues: An Introduction offers a unique approach to the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life.

• Revised and updated to reflect the latest global developments
• Examines the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life
• The only book of its kind to use the concept of development to illustrate how different global issues are interrelated
• Includes a new section on nuclear energy
• Chapter boxes examine ways that individuals can have a positive impact on the issues examined within the text
• Key features include a glossary of terms; guides to further reading, media, and Internet resources; and suggestions for discussing and studying the material

About this title

Book Description

Global Issues, Third Edition is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life. The book covers a range of perspectives on a variety of societies, both developed and developing. Author John L. Seitz writes clearly and stresses the need for informed, critical thinking. The text is extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs; contains guides to further reading, media, and internet resources; and includes suggestions for discussing and studying the material.This new edition has been fully updated throughout and features 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. The section on climate change has been expanded, and for the first time a glossary is included.This unified perspective is ideal for introductory courses in departments of geography, politics, sociology, and environmental science. Previous editions have been used around the world and have been translated into several languages including Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese.

From the Back Cover

Fully revised and updated to reflect today's rapidly changing world, the Fourth Edition of Global Issues offers a comprehensive introduction to the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life. Opening with an overview of the complex origins of world problems, the book moves on to examine the reasons why some nations are rich and some are poor. Important issues such as population growth, extinction of species and cultures, climatic change, energy use, deforestation, and the misuse of technology are then discussed in depth. This edition also includes a range of perspectives on developed and developing societies and readers gain important critical thinking skills necessary to see how choices must be evaluated if these crucial problems are to be solved.

To consider shifting global priorities, this new edition features the addition of a section dedicated to nuclear energy. Chapter boxes highlight ways in which individuals can have a positive impact on issues raised in the readings. The text is extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs; contains guides to further reading, media, and internet resources; and includes suggestions for discussing and studying the material.

With its unique approach in revealing the interrelationships and consequences of global issues through the concept of development, the Fourth Edition of Global Issues remains the most accessible introduction to the topic available today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 047065564X
• ISBN 13: 9780470655641
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 275