Widely regarded as the standard text on development geography, this volume examines the nature and causes of global inequality and critically analyzes contemporary approaches to economic development across the third world. Students gain a deeper understanding of the interacting dynamics of culture, gender, race, and class; biophysical factors, such as climate, population, and natural resources; and economic and political processes--all of which have led to the present-day disparities between the first and third worlds. Numerous examples, sidebars, and figures illustrate how people in the global South are experiencing and contesting the forces of globalization. New to This Edition Updated to reflect a decade of economic, political, and social changes Extensively revised; more fully integrates postcolonial and feminist perspectives Broadens the prior edition's focus on Africa with examples from around the world A chapter on the promises and pitfalls of sustainable development.
I. Differentiated Ways of Knowing 1. Introduction 2. Measuring, Describing, and Mapping Difference and Development 3. Knowing the Third World: Colonial Encounters 4. Knowing the Third World: The Development Decades 5. The Third World and Neoliberal Globalization II. Differentiated Livelihoods and the Nonhuman World 6. Geographies of Population: Discourse and Politics 7. Contested Environments: The Entanglements of Environment, Development, and Globalization 8. Disease and Health 9. Uncertain Rains: The Atmospheric Energy Cycle and the Hydrologic Cycle 10. Other Challenges to Rural Livelihood: Soils, Vegetation, and Pests 11. Nature as Latitudinal Trickster: The Carbon Cycle and Plant Growth 12. The Management of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems: The Pokot of West Central Kenya-An Indigenous Knowledge System III. Differentiated Social Relations Encountering Global Strategies 13. The Historical Geography of Colonialism and the Slave Trade 14. Colonialism as Spatial and Labor Control System 15. The End of Colonialism and the Promise of Free Trade 16. Trading Primary Commodities 17. Peripheral Industrialization: Paths and Strategies 18. The Earth's Crust as Resource 19. Urbanization, Migration, and Spatial Polarization 20. Transnational Production 21. Foreign Branch Plants and Economic Growth 22. Money and Global Finance Markets, with Bongman Seo 23. Borrowing Money: Aid, Debt, and Dependence, with Bongman Seo 24. Toward Different Worlds
