What's New

The first chapter has been recast to focus on the processes of globalization and localization within the New Global Order and their impacts at four geographic scales - global, world regional, country, and local. This places a greater emphasis on the need for a World Regions course at the start of a new century.
Revised openings to all regional chapters linking to revised Chapter 1.
New age-sex diagrams and demographic transition diagrams throughout the book. The age-sex diagrams give three years (1980/90; 2002; 2025). The demographic transition updates birth/death rates from 1970-1992 to 1970-2000.
Updates of events and data throughout to 1998/2000. In each chapter the population data is brought up-to-date with A.D. 2000 estimates, as it is in the Key Places Glossary and the Data Bank in the Reference Section.
Update of the processes of globalization and localization and the different scales of geographic region - world region, country, and local region. Each section of the chapter (1) is tied into these.
Basic Geographic Principles (Chapter 2) revised to take into account changing ideas, and reviewer comments.

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