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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