Geographies of Global Change
Subtitle: Remapping the World
Contributors: R. J. Johnston (Editor); Peter J. Taylor (Editor); Michael Watts (Editor)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780631222859
Subjects: Globalization; Human Geography; Earth Sciences - Geography; Social Science; Science; Change; Geography; Sociology
First sentence: Over a half century ago in his magnificent book The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi (1944) pointed to the costs and consequences of unfettered free trade in a world market and to what he called the "tremendous hazards of planetary interdependence" (ibid: 53).