New Geographies of the Globalized World

This book provides a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21^st century, focusing on nine timely global themes as well as insights and ideas for worlds of the future: demographic trends in the contemporary world and migration; problems of development; religion; war, conflict and terrorism; challenges in transportation; media and the world community; the world community and diseases; cities, and the endangered Earth. This book will be of interest to those studying geography, human-environment relations, politics, globalization studies and international relations.

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 21^st 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.