The Environment in Question presents information on specific environmental issues and introduces the reader to arguments and ethical problems that have developed in and around such issues. The contributors take a global perspective, reflected in contributions from the U.S.A., the U.K., India, and Australia. By addressing specific global problems and placing them within an ethical context, this study provides the reader with both a theoretical and practical understanding of environmental issues. The...

This best-selling text covers basic principles in human geography. It follows a thematic approach that emphasizes where people and human activities are located, why they are located in particular places, and what significance these observed arrangements represent. The revised sixth edition has been reworked to strengthen coverage of ethnicity, local diversity, and the “where and why” framework of the book.

G. Tyler Miller’s worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new contributor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line–enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students...

This text presents an broad range of essays which encompass recent contributions to the study of the cosmic sized problems which confront our species. This comprehensive collection traces the connections between moral principles, economic assumptions, biological considerations, and disputes over environmental policy. It seeks to extract for critical attention the relevant moral or normative presuppositions which lie behind policy recommendations, whether made by biologists, ecologists, economists,...

Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated...

Geographical vocabulary is more challenging and activities offer greater opportunities for individual research, extended reading and discussion. New chapters cover QCA Scheme of Work topics such as Sport, Crime and Fashion.