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E-book: New Geographies of the Globalized World

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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.

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"The essays in the volume New Geographies of the Globalized World analyse the phenomenon of globalisation through various topics of geography. The concrete examples are of different scale and provide tangible and apprehensible clues for interpreting global networks and flows. The book aims to reveal and present the various relationships between people and the world that are profoundly restructured in this new global era."- Géza Barta, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

List of figures
vii
List of tables
ix
List of boxes
x
List of contributors
xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(2)
Marcin Wojciech Solarz
1 Geographies of world population: demographic trends in the contemporary world
3(27)
Barbara Jaczewska
Tomasz Wites
Marcin Wojciech Solarz
Maciej Jedrusik
Malgorzata Wojtaszczyk
2 Geographies of development in the twenty-first century
30(24)
Ferenc Gyuris
3 Many worlds, one planet: ambiguous geographies of the contemporary international community
54(23)
Marcin Wojciech Solarz
4 Twenty-first-century cities: from global challenges to local responses
77(16)
Voicu Bodocan
Jozsef Benedek
Raularian Rusu
5 Geographies of transportation in the twenty-first century
93(22)
Gabor Szalkai
Attila Jancsovics
Imre Keseru
Cathy Macharis
Balazs Nemeth
Vilmos Oszter
6 Geographies of religions: the religious factor in contemporary world politics - analytical frameworks
115(29)
Anna M. Solarz
7 Endangered Earth: pollution, resources, global change
144(26)
Anna Dudek
Jerzy Makowski
Joanna Mietkiewska-Brynda
8 Arcs of crises, zones of peace? The geography of wars, conflicts and terrorism in the twenty-first century
170(17)
Marek Madej
9 Geographies of twenty-first-century disease: epidemiological versus demographic transition
187(24)
Izabella Lecka
Index 211
Marcin Solarz is an Associate Professor, PhD habil., Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.