{"product_id":"a-world-in-crisis-isbn-9780631162711","title":"A World in Crisis","description":"The 1970's witnessed widespread recognition of the world as a single, interconnecting whole. The 1980's have shown that this whole is not operating as a self-sustaining system. In short we appear to live in a world in crisis- manifesting itself in hunger, poverty, debt, conflict, statelessness and war, as well as in the accelerating degradation of the natural environment.  \u003cp\u003eThe geographical perspectives of \u003ci\u003eWorld in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e? - in this completely revised and updated edition - show the interlinking nature of global, regional, and local problems and, further, that these are not uniquely economic, ecological, political or social, but all these and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: A World in Crisis? 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Geography of International Economic Disorder 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Draining the World of Energy 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Food Production and Distribution - and Hunger 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Use of Natural Resources in Developing and Developed Countries 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Malthus, Marx and Population Crises 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 World Capitalism and the Destruction of Regional Cultures 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Individual and the World-Economy 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Question of National Congruence 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The New Geopolitics: The Dynamics of Geopolitical Disorder 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 World-Power Competition and Local Conflicts in the Third World 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The World-Systems Project 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Epilogue: Our Planet is Big Enough for Peace but Too Small for War 355\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 361\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eR. J. Johnston is the editor of A World in Crisis, published by Wiley. Peter James Taylor, FBA, FAcSS is an English geographer. Born in Calverton in Nottinghamshire, he was Professor of Political Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne between 1970 and 1996, before joining Loughborough University as Professor of Geography Since 2010 he was worked at Northumbria University.   The 1970's witnessed widespread recognition of the world as a single, interconnecting whole. The 1980's have shown that this whole is not operating as a self-sustaining system. In short we appear to live in a world in crisis- manifesting itself in hunger, poverty, debt, conflict, statelessness and war, as well as in the accelerating degradation of the natural environment.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe geographical perspectives of \u003ci\u003eWorld in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e? - in this completely revised and updated edition - show the interlinking nature of global, regional, and local problems and, further, that these are not uniquely economic, ecological, political or social, but all these and more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988647952613,"sku":"NP9780631162711","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631162711.jpg?v=1761781107","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-world-in-crisis-isbn-9780631162711","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}