Gloabl Issues: An Introduction - Hardcover

Seitz, John L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631226419 ISBN 13: 9780631226413

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

Synopsis

Global Issues is an introduction to the nature and background of some of the central issues - economic, social, political, environmental - of modern times. This new edition of this text has been fully updated throughout and features expanded sections on issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and energy.

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• Fully updated throughout and features expanded sections on issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and energy.
  
• An introduction to the nature and background of some of the central issues - economic, social, political, environmental - of modern times.
  
• Covers a range of perspectives on a variety of societies, developed and developing.
  
• Extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs, contains guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and includes suggestions for discussion 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:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0631226419
• ISBN 13: 9780631226413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304