Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, Canadian Edition, 5th edition

For courses in Human Geography.

A distinctly modern look at human geography

Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context introduces the study of human geography by presenting not only a body of knowledge about the creation of places and regions but also fostering an understanding of the interdependence of places and regions in a globalizing world.

Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context takes a fresh approach to human geography, reflecting the major changes that have recently been impressed on global, regional, and local landscapes. These changes include the globalization of industry, the rise of China and India, the upwelling of ethnic regionalisms on the heels of decolonization and the formation of new states, the rapid urbanization of the periphery and the physical restructuring of cities, the transformation of traditional agricultural practices, the trend toward transnational political and economic organizations, and the dramatic advances in information and communication technologies. Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context introduces the many new ideas, concepts, and theories that address these changes while also teaching the fundamentals of human geography: the principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and basic knowledge that are necessary to more specialized studies.

Hallmark features of this title

• Geography Matters boxes examine a key concept of the chapter, providing an extended example of its meaning and implications through both visual illustration and text. The Geography Matters features demonstrate that the focus of human geography is on realworld problems.
• Visualizing Geography boxes highlight key concepts of the chapter with a photographic essay. This feature helps students recognize that the visual landscape contains readily accessible evidence about the impact of globalization on people and places.
• The Virtual Geographies boxes are brief vignettes that highlight how the new information and communications technologies are changing geography at all scales.
• Window on the World boxes take a key concept and explore its application in a particular location. This feature allows students to appreciate the relevance of geographic concepts to world events and brings far-flung places closer to their comprehension.

New and updated features of this title

• As the world shifts to a greater reliance on digital media, it is appropriate that this resource evolves as well. This updated fifth Canadian edition is the first fully digital version of Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context. Instructors and students will find that, although the medium has changed, the content is fully consistent with prior editions.
• We have increased the focus on basic introductory human geography content in Chapter 1, allowing the text to be more accessible to a wide range of introductory courses and students.
• Material from the final chapter of the fourth Canadian edition, on Future Geographies, has been updated and integrated into each chapter, thus placing the “futures” content in thematic context.
• The boxed feature essays on Visualizing Geography have been fundamentally redesigned to incorporate edgy, modern applications and visualizations of geography data.
• A new boxed feature called Virtual Geographies highlights the many effects of the new information and communications technologies on geography at all scales.
• The updated fifth Canadian edition also incorporates a comprehensive updating of all of the data, maps, photographs, and illustrative examples.