ABSTRACT

Globalization has, essentially, come to an end. It is, already, a victorious revolution. It has profoundly restructured the relationships between people and the world, often recreating them in a new geographical image.

This book discovers and describes these relationships of new geographies, providing a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21st century. It considers a number of timely and important themes and insights for the present and future world, exploring topics such as population trends and migration; development, the urban; transportation; religion; our endangered planet; wars, conflicts and terrorism, and disease. As such it offers a cross-cutting synthesis of the modern world. It will be of interest to students and researches in humanities and social sciences, including geographers, economists, political scientists and IR specialists.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|27 pages

Geographies of world population

Demographic trends in the contemporary world

chapter 3|23 pages

Many worlds, one planet

Ambiguous geographies of the contemporary international community

chapter 4|16 pages

Twenty-first-century cities

From global challenges to local responses

chapter 6|29 pages

Geographies of religions

The religious factor in contemporary world politics – analytical frameworks

chapter 7|26 pages

Endangered Earth

Pollution, resources, global change

chapter 8|17 pages

Arcs of crises, zones of peace?

The geography of wars, conflicts and terrorism in the twenty-first century

chapter 9|24 pages

Geographies of twenty-first-century disease

Epidemiological versus demographic transition