Preface PART 1. The Context 1. The Home Planet The Big Picture Box 1.1 Poor Pluto Shaky Ground: Plate Tectonics Life on Earth A Humanized World Box 1.2 Wallace''s Line: A Biogeographical Boundary 2. The Nature of Geography Mapping Absolute Space Box 2.1 Measuring the World The Shift from Cosmography to Geography Box 2.2 Thinking about Maps Mapping Relative Space Environment and Society Geography and Society Contemporary Debates Box 2.

3 The Spatial Turn The Concerns of Human Geography Box 2.4 GIS, Remote Sensing, and The Democratization of Mapping PART 2. People, Resources, and Environment 3. Population Dynamics Population Declines Box 3.1 The Reproductive Revolution The Demographic Transition Box 3.2 Ireland: The Demographic Base of the Celtic Tiger Phases of the Demographic Transition Box 3.3 Brazil and the Demographic Dividend Box 3.4 Russia''s Changing Population Problems and Opportunities of The Demographic Transition 4.

Population and Food Population and Agriculture Malthusian Melancholy Hunger, Famine, and Food Insecurity Box 4.1 Overfishing Box 4.2 Food Deserts Limits on Food Supply Questioning the Food Production System Box 4.3 Overpopulation Reexamined 5. Population and Resources The Case of Coal Box 5.1 The Hubbert Curve Laws of Resource Use The Limits to Growth? The Case of Oil Box 5.2 The Geopolitics of Oil Fracking in The USA Box 5.3 Commodity Cartels The Limits to Growth Revisited 6.

People and the Environment Environment and Cultural Meaning Environmental Impacts on Society Human Impacts and Environmental Change The Anthropocene: Living in a Modified Earth and Socially Constructed Nature Box 6.1 The Tragedy of the Commons? PART 3. The Economic Organization of Space 7. The Geography of Three Economic Sectors Agriculture Box 7.1 Food Supply Chains The Commercialization of Agriculture Manufacturing Box 7.2 The Industrial Revolution Services Box 7.3 The Cultural-Creative Economy Summary 8. The Economic Geography of Uneven Development Global Differences Box 8.

1 Different Economies Regional Differences The Role of The State Capital and Labor The Rise of Mass Consumption Box 8.2 The Changing Concerns of Economic Geography PART 4. The Cultural Organization of Space 9. The Geography of Population The Distribution of Population Population Differences: Gender, Age, Race, and Ethnicity The Movement of Population Box 9.1 The Age of Distraction Models of Population Movement Box 9.2 The Zelinksy and Metz Models 10. The Geography of Religion The Geography of the Major Religions Box 10.1 Alternative Visions The Geographies of Religious Belief The Religious Organization of Space Box 10.

2 Jerusalem Religion and Society 11. The Geography of Language Language of the Local The Distribution of Languages Language and Power The Language of Place The Place of Language The Political Geography of Language Globalization of Language Box 11.1 The Linguistic Landscape PART 5. The Global Organization of Space 12. Creating a Global Economy Space-Time Convergence Three Waves of Globalization Box 12.1 The Flow of Capital Box 12.2 The Flow of Remittances Global Shift Box 12.3 Transnational Corporations International Non-Government Agencies The Promise and Reality of Neoliberalism A Flat World? 13.

The Global Geography of Culture Cultural Regions Spatial Diffusion Box 13.1 The Diffusion of Diseases Culture as Flow The Global Production of Culture The Commodification of Culture The Myth of Homogeneity PART 6. The Political Organization of Space 14. World Orders Early Empires Global Integration Box 14.1 The Caribbean as Imperial Shatter Zone Imperial Overstretch Imperial Disintegration The Clash of Civilizations? Elements of A New World Order Box 14.2 The Pentagon''s View of the World 15. The Nation-State The Range of States Box 15.1 Depicting Countries in Relative Space The Rise and Fall of States The Spatial Nature of the State Box 15.

2 Imagined Communities Nation, State, and Minorities The Territory of the State Boundaries and Frontiers Geography of Elections Box 15.3 Geopolitics PART 7. The Urban Organization of Space 16. The Urban Transformation The First Urban Revolution A Second Urban Revolution The Third Urban Revolution Box 16.1 The Metropolitan United States Box 16.2 Megalopolis Box 16.3 Seoul Box 16.4 Shanghai 17.

Networks of Cities Regional Networks National Networks Box 17.1 Estimating City Population Global Networks Box 17.2 Visualizing National Urban Network Flows: The Case of the United States 18. The Internal Structure of the City The City As Investment The City As Residence Box 18.1 Home Sweet Home The City as Social Context Box 18.2 Measuring Segregation in Cities The City As Political Arena Box 18.3 Population Change in US Cities, 1900-2010 Changes in the Contemporary City Glossary Credits Index.