Introduction to Geography: People, Places & Environment, Global Edition, 6th edition

Published by Pearson United Kingdom (August 14, 2014) © 2015
  • Carl H. Dahlman
  • William H. Renwick

Title overview

Introduction to Geography: People, Places, & Environment introduces students to the major tools, techniques, and methodological approaches of the discipline through new applied and visual features that engage students and reinforce real-world connections. The authors emphasize the integration of various aspects of geographic processes and systems by discussing what happens in one set of geographic processes and how that affects others. For example, what happens in economic systems affects environmental conditions; what happens to climate affects political dynamics.

Features

  • Rapid Change. These features emphasize the issues that arise as local places contend with environmental, economic, cultural, and political changes that occur at unprecedented speed.
  • Global and Local. More than any other discipline, geography explains the connections between global forces and local places. Global and Local features examine in detail how particular places respond to global impacts.
  • Thinking Geographically. These critical thinking questions encourage higher level thinking and exploration beyond the text, into the library or out into the community. Some students may find these questions appropriate for papers or research projects.
  • Up-to-date coverage incorporates the recent global financial crisis, current environmental impacts and concerns, extensive discussion of global climate change, the carbon cycle, data from the 2010 U.S. Census and the 2013 Population Reference Bureau’s Population Data, and the latest techniques in geospatial technologies, and updates within every discussion as appropriate.

New to this Edition

  • NEW Explorations. Written by guest contributors who are experts in their respective fields, these new features help students make the link between geographical concepts from the chapters’ major themes to real-world data and research, showing the applied nature and relevance of geography today.
  • NEW The World in 2050. These new features, located at the end of each chapter, extrapolate current trends and predictions of key geographic issues into the future, using current data and a highly visual approach to discuss possible future scenarios.
  • NEW Learning Outcomes. help students prioritize the major learning goals, skills, and knowledge in the chapter.
  • NEW Checkpoint questions integrated throughout the chapter allow the students to check their understanding of the material just studied.
  • Media icons within the pages of the book link students to Pearson Mastering Geography where they can access a variety of media that enrich and extend the book content, including MapMaster interactive maps, Geoscience animations, and QR codes.
  • Updated data incorporate the latest science and statistics and associated imagery, including data from the 2010 Census and the 2013 Population Reference Bureau (PRB) Population Data.
  • Updated Economic Geography chapter provides a more engaging presentation of the world’s current and historical economic and development issues.

Key features

Digital Assets in Mastering Geography

  • Assignable activities: MapMasterTM interactive map activities, Geoscience Animation activities, Encounter Google EarthTM Activities, Geography Video activities, Map Projection activities, end-of-chapter questions and exercises, reading questions, and Test Bank questions.
  • Student study resources in the Study Area: MapMasterTM interactive maps, Geoscience Animations, Web links, videos, glossary flashcards, “In the News” RSS feeds, chapter quizzes, an optional Pearson eText, including iPad and Android versions, and more.
  • MapMaster provides additional maps from human/cultural and physical geography to provide compelling interactive mapping media and assessments across all chapters.
  • Geography videos are tied to science and process issues relevant to the thematic chapters and utilize both open and licensed sources such as BBC, NASA, JPL, EPA, FEMA, NWS, and TVE.
  • Geoscience Animations are popular 2-D media thatilluminate the most difficult to visualize topics from across the physical geosciences, such as solar system formation, hydrologic cycle, plate tectonics, glacial advance and retreat, global warming, and more. The print book is linked to video versions of these animations via QR codes.
  • EncounterActivities, organized by theme and question type, provide rich, interactive explorations of geography concepts using Google EarthTM and have been updated per usability study findings and latest best practices.

Table of contents

Part 1: Environment and Resources

  1. 1. Introduction to Geography
  2. 2. Landforms
  3. 3. Weather, Climate & Climate Change
  4. 4. Biosphere
  5. 5. Earth’s Resources and Environmental Protection

Part 2: Culture

  1. 6. Population and Migration
  2. 7. Cultural Geography
  3. 8. Languages and Religions
  4. 9. Food and Agriculture

Part 3: Development of Modern Society

  1. 10. Cities and Urbanization
  2. 11. A World of States
  3. 12. Economy and Development

Author bios

Carl T. Dahlman earned degrees in sociology, music, and urban affairs before receiving his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Kentucky in 2001. He is the Director of the International Studies Program at Miami University, where his teaching focuses on political geography, migration and mobility, and globalization. His current research includes the role of European integration in the geopolitics of Southeastern Europe, and he has published a book on the subject, Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal(Oxford University Press, with Gearóid © Tuathail). He is a co-author of Pearson’s Introduction to Contemporary Geography, with James M. Rubenstein and William H. Renwick.

William H. Renwick earned a B.A. from Rhode Island College in 1973 and a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in 1979. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Rutgers University, and is currently Associate Professor of Geography at Miami University. A physical geographer with interests in geomorphology and environmental issues, his research focuses on impacts of land-use change on rivers and lakes, particularly in agricultural landscapes in the Midwest. He is a co-author of Pearson’s Introduction to Contemporary Geography, with James M. Rubenstein and Carl T. Dahlman. When time permits, he studies these environments from the seat of a wooden canoeboat. He is a co-author of Pearson’s Introduction to Contemporary Geography, with James M. Rubenstein and Carl T. Dahlman.

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