Global Issues: An Introduction

Global Issues, Third Edition is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life.

• Offers a unified perspective on a complex range of global issues in a variety of societies, both developed and developing
• Includes new sections on foreign aid and development assistance, terrorism, the relationship between geography and wealth and poverty, food and the overweight, and the Millennium Development Goals
• Features an updated and expanded section on climate change, as well as a new glossary
• Illustrates key topics and issues with diagrams and photographs
• Provides guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and suggestions for discussing and studying the material