Beautifully written by two of the foremost geographers in the discipline, Human Geography, Seventh Edition, helps students and instructors explore and untangle the many complicated threads of world issues of today and tomorrow--at a time when global changes in politics, agriculture, and environmental issues are visibly affecting all people.

In the Seventh Edition, the authors have added entirely new coverage on a variety of topics of considerable contemporary importance, for example: declining fertility rates, religious fundamentalism, genetically modified food, and economic impacts on political power as well as increased coverage of cultural change in the face of globalization. A new chapter, "Human Society and Natural Environments," addresses human/environmental interactions and addresses how humans cope with environmental changes such as global warming.

Human Geography: Culture, Society and Space challenges students by presenting information in a manner that adds perspective and engages students in inquiry-based thinking and learning. The text now includes a "Looking Ahead" box in each chapter that challenges students to figure out what human-geographical trends are now developing, and what the next global questions they may be confronting in their lifetimes will be. For instance: what role will organic agriculture play in food production generally? How will municipalities around the world ensure that the new megacities (of over 10 million inhabitants each, not a single one of them in Europe) don't descend into a chaos of serviceless squalor? And what will be the effects of more and more religious intermixing, that is, people of different faiths commingling much more, almost everywhere, than before?

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