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
