Geographies of global change : remapping the world in the late twentieth century

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Geographies of global change : remapping the world in the late twentieth century / edited by R.J. Johnston, Peter J. Taylor, and Michael J. Watts.

Johnston, R. J. (Ronald John) (Added Author). Taylor, Peter J. (Peter James), 1944- (Added Author). Watts, Michael. (Added Author).

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The purpose of this important new textbook is to provide students with a series of challenging and revealing perspectives on the trends, trajectories and ideas of the 1990s. Twenty geographers from all over the world have been especially commissioned to address the questions of how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. -- Amazon

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ISBN: 063119326X
ISBN: 9780631193265
ISBN: 0631193278
ISBN: 9780631193272
Physical Description: xii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-419) and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-419) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 1. Global Change at the End of the Twentieth Century / Peter J. Taylor, Michael J. Watts and R.J. Johnston -- pt. I. Geoeconomic Change -- Introduction to Part I: The Reconfiguration of Late Twentieth-Century Capitalism. 2. A Hyperactive World / Nigel Thrift. 3. From Farming to Agribusiness: the Global Agro-food System / Sarah Whatmore. 4. Multinational Corporations and the New International Division of Labor / Richard Barff. 5. Trajectories of Development Theory: Capitalism, Socialism, and Beyond / David Slater -- pt. II. Geopolitical Change -- Introduction to Part II: After the Cold War. 6. Democracy and Human Rights after the Cold War / John Agnew. 7. The Renaissance of Nationalism / Nuala C. Johnson. 8. Global Regulation and Trans-state Organization / Susan M. Roberts. 9. The Regulatory State: the Corporate Welfare State and Beyond / Joe Painter -- pt. III. Geosocial Change -- Introduction to Part III: People in Turmoil. 10. Population Crises: the Malthusian Specter? / Allan Findlay. 11. Global Migration and Ethnicity: Contemporary Case-Studies / Nurit Kliot. 12. Changing Women's Status in a Global Economy / Susan Christopherson. 13. Disease Implications of Global Change / Andrew Cliff and Peter Haggett -- pt. IV. Geocultural Change -- Introduction to Part IV: Modernity, Identity, and Machineries of Meaning. 14. World Cities and the Organization of Global Space / Paul L. Knox. 15. The New Spaces of Global Media / Kevin Robins. 16. Resisting and Reshaping the Modern: Social Movements and the Development Process / Paul Routledge. 17. Understanding Diversity: the Problem of/for "Theory" / Linda McDowell -- pt. V. Geoenvironmental Change -- Introduction to Part V: A Burden Too Far? 18. The Earth Transformed: Trends, Trajectories, and Patterns / William B. Meyer and B.L. Turner II. 19. The Earth as Input: Resources / Jody Emel and Gavin Bridge. 20. The Earth as Output: Pollution / Malcolm Newson. 21. Sustainable Development? / W.M. Adams -- pt. VI. Conclusion. 22. Remapping the World: What Sort of Map? What Sort of World? / Peter J. Taylor, Michael J. Watts and R.J. Johnston.

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