Product Description

Global Issues is an introduction to the nature and background of some of the central issues – economic, social, political, environmental – of modern times. This new edition of this text has been fully updated throughout and features expanded sections on issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and energy.

• Fully updated throughout and features expanded sections on issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and energy.
  
• An introduction to the nature and background of some of the central issues – economic, social, political, environmental – of modern times.
  
• Covers a range of perspectives on a variety of societies, developed and developing.
  
• Extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs, contains guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and includes suggestions for discussion and studying the material.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #717371 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
"This is a very interesting book. On the one hand its range of titles suggests little out of the ordinary. On the other hand its treatment of the subject matter and the very restrained use of language make it an ideal book to use for discussions on these issues. It doesn′t try to preach neither does it over–simplify. Even though the text appears to be pitched at an older audience, lower secondary students would find the text accessible. For a good overview on the pros and cons of key current issues this book is hard to beat." TEGNews

"University students, and indeed others, are shown how both the decisions that have been made – and the resulting failures and successes – and the choices that must now be faced if crucial problems are to be solved." Mervyn Richardson, International Journal of Environmental Studies

From the Back Cover
The new edition of this text has been fully updated throughout and features expanded sections on issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and energy.

Global Issues is an introduction to the nature and background of some of the central issues – economic, social, political, environmental – of modern times. It will provide the basis for a stimulating course for beginning students in departments of geography, politics, sociology and environmental science.

The book opens with an overview of the complex political, cultural and natural origins of world problems and of why some nations are rich and some are poor. The author then discusses in depth such issues as population growth, hunger, the extinction of species, global warming and climatic change, ozone depletion, energy conservation, deforestation, and the misuse of technology.

Highly illustrated with diagrams and photographs, this volume contains guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and includes suggestions for discussion and studying the material.

About the Author
John L. Seitz is Professor Emeritus of Government at Wofford College. He earned a BA and MPA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and a PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin. He has extensive first–hand experience of South Korea, Iran, Brazil, Liberia, and Pakistan. His Politics of Development was published by Blackwell in 1988. The first edition of his Global Issues has been widely used in colleges and universities in the UK, US and Canada and translated into Japanese and Portuguese.