ABSTRACT
This book of Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space has analysed the issue from various points of view. The book starts with a theoretical article about the importance of land use for man. The fact that land as such has been and is one of the fundamentals of being in this Earth of ours makes the first article of this book very interesting indeed. The book then goes on to look at the issues of environment in the globalizing world through the 'spectaculars' of economic and social geography where the interplay between man and nature is always present, although the role nature in this context has been changing dramatically during the last decades. Today the questions of global warming and the changes that man has provoked in atmosphere, the green house gases, are coming more apparent and these phenomena have profound effects on the life in rural areas that constitute the most 'green areas' of the world. The economic problems arising from environmental issues coupled with those of the globalization are the issues that this book looks into.
