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Essentials of World Regional Geography

ISBN10: 0077784510 | ISBN13: 9780077784515

Essentials of World Regional Geography
ISBN10: 0077784510
ISBN13: 9780077784515
By George White, Elizabeth Chacko, Joseph Dymond and Michael Bradshaw

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Essentials of World Regional Geography, 3e gives readers an approach that combines fundamental geographical elements, internal regional diversity, and contemporary issues. This approach allows serious discussion of cultural and environmental issues, as well as political and economic issues. White Essentials of World Regional Geography, 3e encourages students to consider what it means to be part of a global community and to develop their geographical understandings of world events.

Essentials of World Regional Geography has chapter openings with a physical features map of the region, which includes short accounts of people or events to provide a personal flavor of the region, an outline of the chapter contents, and a short section placing the region in its wider global context. Each regional chapter is consistently organized by three sections. The first section summarizes the distinctive physical and human geographies of the region; the second section explores the internal diversity of the region at subregional, selected country, and local levels. The third section focuses on a selection of contemporary issues that are important to the people of each region and frequently have implications for the rest of the world. Each regional chapter follows the same framework, allowing students to easily make comparisons from one world region to the next.

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1 Essentials of World Regional Geography

2 Europe

3 Russia and Neighboring Countries

4 East Asia

5 Southeast Asia

6 South Asia

7 Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia

8 Sub-Saharan Africa

9 Australia, Oceania and Antarctica

10 Latin America

11 North America

About the Author

George White

Elizabeth Chacko

Joseph Dymond

Michael Bradshaw

Bradshaw taught geography at the College of St. Mark & John (Plymouth, England) for 22 years. His research has focused on the impact of US federal programs in Appalachia.

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