Longman Atlas of World Issues

2011-02-25

Author: Robert J. Art

Publisher: Longman

ISBN: 0205780202

Category: Economic geography

Page: 48

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From population and political systems to energy use and women's rights, the Longman Atlas of World Issues includes full-color thematic maps that examine the forces shaping the world. Featuring maps from the latest edition of The Penguin State of the World Atlas, this excerpt includes critical thinking exercises to promote a deeper understanding of how geography affects many global issues.

Atlas of Global Issues

2007

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Publisher:

ISBN: 0007243170

Category: Economic indicators

Page: 0

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"A visual guide to the world's greatest challenges"--Cover.

World Atlas of Global Issues

2019

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ISBN: OCLC:1135462013

Category: Globalization

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Atlas of World Issues

1989

Author: Nick Middleton

Publisher:

ISBN: 0816020221

Category: Travel

Page: 63

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This atlas examines areas of public concern in today's world, such as climate conditions, vegetation, world politics, pollution, population growth, production of mineral resources, consumption of energy, unemployment, and industrial development.

McGraw Hill's Atlas of World Events

2005

Author: John Logan Allen

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSC:32106017503811

Category: Atlases

Page: 212

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McGraw-Hill's Atlas of World Events goes beyond the "where" of today's world to offer a vivid, in-depth picture of the current state of the planet and human civilization.

The Atlas of World Hunger

2010-05-15

Author: Thomas J. Bassett

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226039084

Category: Social Science

Page: 216

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Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be “making sure that people are able to get enough to eat.” The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people are hungry. In 2006, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations counted 850 million hungry people worldwide, but as food prices soared, an additional 100 million or more who were vulnerable succumbed to food insecurity. If hunger were simply a matter of food production, no one would go without. There is more than enough food produced annually to provide every living person with a healthy diet, yet so many suffer from food shortages, unsafe water, and malnutrition every year. That’s because hunger is a complex political, economic, and ecological phenomenon. The interplay of these forces produces a geography of hunger that Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson illuminate in this empowering book. The Atlas of World Hunger uses a conceptual framework informed by geography and agricultural economics to present a hunger index that combines food availability, household access, and nutritional outcomes into a single tool—one that delivers a fuller understanding of the scope of global hunger, its underlying mechanisms, and the ways in which the goals for ending hunger can be achieved. The first depiction of the geography of hunger worldwide, the Atlas will be an important resource for teachers, students, and anyone else interested in understanding the geography and causes of hunger. This knowledge, the authors argue, is a critical first step toward eliminating unnecessary suffering in a world of plenty.

Atlas of World History

2002

Author: Patrick O'Brien

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780195219210

Category: Atlases

Page: 314

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Synthesizing exceptional cartography and impeccable scholarship, this edition traces 12,000 years of history with 450 maps and over 200,000 words of text. 200 illustrations.

An Atlas of World Affairs

1998

Author: Andrew Boyd

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780415106719

Category: SCIENCE

Page: 254

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An Atlas of World Affairs describes the people, factions and events that have shaped the modern world from the Second World War to the present day. This tenth edition of An Atlas of World Affairs has been thoroughly revised and updated to place international issues and conflicts in their most recent geographical contexts through the integration of over one hundred maps. Critical new issues are covered including: the break-up of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia; the expansion of the European Union; the reshaping of South Africa; and the pressing environmental concerns faced by many new sovereign states.

Atlas of Environmental Issues

1988

Author: Nick Middleton

Publisher:

ISBN: NWU:35556018995936

Category: Biosphere

Page: 74

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Describes and explains major environmental issues of the world today including soil erosion, deforestation, mechanised agriculture, oil pollution of the oceans, acid rain, overfishing, and nuclear power.