Last edition Elsevier Diversity Amid Globalization takes students on a journey into the connections and diversity between people and places–the contrasting regions of the world–within thematically organized regional chapters. With an arresting visual layout and new and updated content and maps throughout, the text maintains and strengthens its hallmark thematic organization and focus on globalization, while encouraging students to participate in the material using a number of stimulating, interactive learning tools.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9781292058924
Imprint: Pearson Education
Language: English
Authors: Lester Rowntree
Pub Date: 05/2015
Pages: 752
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 1,360.000 grams
Size: 216 x 277 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- Lester Rowntree was born in England and spent much of her life in Carmel, California. In addition to "Hardy Californians, "she wrote "The Flowering Shrubs of California "and four children's books. Lester B. Rowntree, her grandson, is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. "Les Rowntree" teaches both Geography and Environmental Studies at San Jose State University in California, where he recently completed a term as the Chair of the interdisciplinary Department of Environmental Studies. As an environmental geographer, Dr. Rowntree's teaching and research interests focus on international environmental issues, the human dimensions of global change, biodiversity and conservation, and human-caused landscape transformation. He sees world regional geography as a way to engage and inform students by giving them the conceptual tools needed to assess global issues critically in their larger context. Dr. Rowntree has done research in Morocco, Mexico, Australia, and Europe, as well as in his native California. Current writing projects include a book on the natural history of California's Central Coast, along with textbooks in geography and environmental science.
- 1. Diversity Amid Globalization
- 2. The Changing Global Environment
- 3. North America
- 4. Latin America
- 5. The Caribbean
- 6. Sub-Saharan Africa
- 7. Southwest Asia and North Africa
- 8. Europe
- 9. The Russian Domain
- 10. Central Asia
- 11. East Asia
- 12. South Asia
- 13. Southeast Asia
- 14. Australia and Oceania
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