What's New

All Chapters

• All On-Line boxes have been revised and many new websites included. The boxes will be relocated to go just before "Selected References."

• All Selected References lists have been revised.

• Minor text changes and corrections in response to suggestions from reviewers.

Chapter 2

• New text and figures on (1) the township and range survey system, and (2) radar interferometry.

• Expanded and revised "Where on Earth Are You?" box.

• New Geography and Public Policy box, "Civilian Spy Satellites."

Chapter 3

• Minor text changes and corrections responding to reviewers' suggestions.

Chapter 4

• Two new sections: (1) "Soils and Climate," with the following subheadings: soil formation, soil profiles and horizons; soil properties; soil classification; and a new box, "Soil Taxonomy." (2) "Natural Vegetation and Climate," with the following subheadings: succession; natural vegetation regions.

• The section on climate regions has been reorganized to follow the Koppen classification scheme.

Chapter 5

• Substantially revised box, "The Kyoto Protocol."

• Updated, revised, and expanded discussions of (1) animal wastes, (2) greenhouse gases, and (3) controlling air pollution.

Chapter 6

• Updating of all population figures and projections using current U.N., World Bank, and Population Reference Bureau data.

• Extensive text revisions reflecting new assessments of national and international population trends, including morbidity and mortality data.

• New, extended discussions of HIV/AIDS occurrence and population implications.

• Moderate to major revisions and updating of all boxed discussions.

• Fifteen new or revised line art pieces, including new versions of essentially all of the chapter's world maps.

Chapter 7

• New boxed discussion "Leveling the Field" reviewing the Beijing Conference on Women (1995) and Beijing Plus Five Conference (2000).

• Small section of new or revised maps.

Chapter 9

• New text and figures dealing with the following topics: (1) positional and territorial disputes; (2) devolution; (3) the European Union.

• Revised, updated, and expanded "Legislative Women" box.

• Many minor text and figure changes to reflect recent world political developments.

Chapter 10

• Revisions and expansions; some major; discussions of: Green Revolution; trade in primary products; transnational corporations; and high-tech patterns and production.

• New sections or extended discussions of: Fordism; just-in-time and flexible production; quinary activities; and services in world trade.

• Updating to the extent possible of all text and tabular data.

• Several new or revised maps and diagrams.

Chapter 11

• A substantially rewritten Geography and Public Policy box, "Dammed Trouble."

• A new box, "An Appetite for Oil."

• To keep the book current, all resource-use data have been updated to reflect the most recent production, consumption, and reserve data. The tables, graphs, and charts in this chapter have been updated, and there are new versions of the many world pattern maps.

Chapter 12

• All text and tabular data has been updated and line art is new or revised to reflect the most recent population counts and projections.