Themes
In the year 2000, people face two major sets of events—globalization and increasing rates of change in society. Both have strong geographic implications.

Content
Reviewers at all stages made major contributions to the new edition, sometimes on an interactive basis, although the author takes full responsibility for final decisions. Some of the contributions are listed here.

• What’s New
• Continuing from the First Edition

Visual Program
Has more than 556 maps, diagrams and photos, with more illustrations per page than any competitor.

Pedagogy
Bradshaw’s World Regional Geography provides unique resources and pedagogical features to assist students in study.

Supplements
A veritable clearing house of supplements are available to those adopting Bradshaw’s World Regional Geography including: Interactive Web sites, CD-ROMS, Atlases, Videos, Slides, Transparencies, Testing Software, Annual Editions, Base Map Collection, etc.

Themes

Global Order. Bradshaw’s World Regional Geography is the only text that uses the Global Order theme for its organization. Questions arise. Does a global order exist? Will globalization mean more than easier transportation and telecommunications? Will every place look the same? Is it a political, economic, cultural, or environmental phenomenon? How does it affect different countries? Does it make regions more alike?

Rapid Change. Bradshaw’s World Regional Geography is the only text to encourage Web site use. Today’s media news may affect tomorrow’s geographic details from country borders and international linkages to internal variations. Political and economic circumstances as well as environmental hazards, can cause social change. Cultural conditions tend to resist such changes. Social changes affect geographic regions at different rates. Keeping up with such changes requires an awareness of world events made possible through the Internet.

Importance of Human Development. Bradshaw’s World Regional Geography focuses on core-periphery relationships and on new ways of monitoring development. Extending from poorest to richest countries, this text begins with some of the least developed regions today, followed by European impacts on the world, including the Americas. The development theme is a basic means of analyzing differences among regions and countries. The end of the Cold resulted in the Three Worlds being replaced by global concepts of periphery, semiperiphery and core. Development is more than GNP growth; it involves a wide range of human experiences, including gender issues, and looks to the future.

Comparisons among Regions. The study of world regions within the context of global events and processes: continuing significance of geographic differences in understanding our world as it enters a new century. Opening chapter focuses on this theme.

Primacy of World Cultures. Culture is the basis of political attitude and decisions; development policies vary with culture. Priorities in economic policies are often set by cultural considerations. The interpretation of natural environments is related to culture.

Chapter 1: A New Global Order

• Chapter rewritten, based on the themes and the philosophy of the new global order
• Global issues discussed: political, economic, cultural and environmental
• Major world regions overview

• Chapter written to specifically focus on the geographic principles of world regional studies
• This chapter will lay a good foundation of knowledge for regional study to come
• Basics covered: population, political, economic, cultural, physical, environmental geography, as well as urban and rural landscapes.
• Supporting web sites are given for each basic principle

• New maps of population distribution and land use
• New NASA space shuttle photos
• Web sites including government, newspaper, and independent sites
• Improved illustration legends
• Improved RECAP sections
• End-of-chapter test questions

• HIV/AIDS pandemic
• President Clinton’s visit and aid package
• Updates on Tutsi tribes in Uganda and eastern Congo
• Tourism as a major potential for earning foreign currency.
• Relaxation of apartheid policy and the release of Nelson Mandela
• The future of the Republic of South Africa (RSA) and grounds for optimism in South Africa
• Updates to the Zimbabwe box
• Grounds for optimism in South Africa

• Islamic Revivalism box updated
• Expanded information on internal strife, sanctions and terrorism
• Israel: indecision between peaceful relations and territory, internal ethnic and political divisions

• India’s and Pakistan’s nuclear detonations and circumstances leading to economic change
• India’s population distribution and prospects for reducing poverty
• Economic restructuring and poverty in Bangladesh and Pakistan

• An explanation of Eastern Asia; movement from the Periphery to the Core, as they have become a significant part of global economy.
• China, Mongolia, and North Korea: transitions from rural-agricultural economy to an urban-
• industrial economy.
• Burma, the modern Myanmar, added from Southern Asia (first edition)
• Japan, South Korea and Taiwan: leaders of economic growth
• Added information on population distribution, resources and economic status in China, Mongolia, and North Korea
• Hong Kong: population, service and tourism industry and its transition back to China
• Malaysian’s recent environmental quality loss
• ASEAN countries in financial crisis.

• The formation of the European Union and NATO and the integration of the satellite countries of the former Soviet Union (Baltic countries, Poland, Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and the former Yugoslavian countires.
• Added information on population, land use, tourism and environmental issues throughout
• Updated information on the Bosnian, Croatian, and Kosovan conflicts

• The creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the impacts and internal strife arising from these changes
• Movement of Eastern and Balkan Europe, together with the Baltic Republics from within
• the CIS to join the NATO and EU
• Added information on population and resources of the area
• Industry and environmental problems
• Explanation of The Russian Federation: political, ethnic and economic factors
• Foreign investment, car manufacturing and scientific research in the CIS
• New "Living in Russia" box

Chapter 9: North America

• Anglo America as an influence on world politics, economics, and cultures
• Growth of service industries
• Water resource distribution and policies in the Southwest
• Latest immigration statistics and policies
• Government intervention and farming subsidies
• Geopolitical leadership speculation for the 21^st Century

Chapter 10: Latin America

• Latin Americas’ transition from the periphery toward the core of the world economic system
• Updated El Nino information, including areas of heavy rains or drought in 1997-1998 event
• New deforestation legislation
• Added information on Mexican culture
• New policies in Central America in the late 90’s.
• Additional cultural information on the West Indies
• 1998 fires destroying rain forest in Brazil
• Impacts of Hurricane Mitch

• El Nino causing intense droughts and forest fires in the South Pacific
• Natural typhoon disaster in Papua New Guinea

Updated glossaries, study resources and extended data bank

• Gender and Culture Issues

• Examples of Gender Issues
  p41 Population Policies
  p56 Gender Inequalities: including Gender-Related Development Index with data for all countries in Reference Section Data Bank
  p57 Social Development
  p137 Gender Inequalities under Islam
  p 258 World Issue: Population Policies (Eastern Asia)
  p316 Living in Germany (written by woman)
  

• Examples of Race, Ethnicity Issues
  p6 Global Cultural Order
  p41 Nations and Nationalism
  p56 Race and Class
  p78 Ethnicity and Tribalism in Africa
  p92 Ethnic Distributions and Tensions (Central Africa)
  p106 Ethiopian Cultural History
  p136 Islam, Sunnites and Shiites
  p138 World Issue: Islamic Revivalism
  p186 Diverse Cultures (Southern Asia) and partition history
  p299 Devolution in European Countries
  p413 Congregation and segregation (USA)
  p438 Diverse Peoples, Figure 9.30
  p439 Native Americans

• Web sites boxes at the end of each regional chapter encourage further study and critical thinking by providing regional web sites and suggestions for comparison with other regions.

• Recap boxes sections occur several times throughout each chapter and contain a summary of the previous material, critical thinking questions, listing of key terms and key places. Recap boxes were implemented to encourage a student to reviewer smaller sections of material, rather than a large amount of material at the end.

• Revised World Issue boxes in every regional chapter examines topics that deeply affect the region covered such as population policy and economic growth, as well as having implications for other world regions.

• Living In boxes in each regional chapter focus on day-to-day issues in a specific country through the eyes of an individual who has lived there. These boxes give students a more personalized view of the countries. New boxes, such as "Living in Russia" have been added to the second edition and others are being are being added to the book’s Web site.

• Improved Readability: shortened paragraphs, more 3^rd level heads, more information bulleted.

• Fuller illustration legends, some with questions, others with broader description of illustration content or interpretation.

• 30 Chapter Review Questions are provided at the end of each Chapter. These Multiple Choice, True/False and Fill in the Blank questions can be used in two ways: 1) student’s chapter review 2) professor’s quiz. The answers are housed in the password protected; Instructor’s Resource section of this Web site and the instructor decides how the answers should be distributed.

• Study Resources in the Reference Section include data for all countries so students can plot their own chart of age and sex, demographic transition and ownership of consumer goods. This section includes Map Projections, Jobs for Geographers, and a World Data Bank including HDI, GDI and HPI data.

• Glossaries include the latitude and longitude of Key Places and the pronunciation of the most difficult to pronounce Key Terms.

• Chapter opening Global Maps give the reader a bird’s eye view of both the topography and political boundaries of the regions to be covered in relation to the rest of the world. These globes emphasize the global theme in the text. For improved comparison and viewing, both globes are now of equal size.

• There are 3-6 NASA shuttle photos in each chapter. Space shuttle photos provide broader view and are sometimes grouped together with a close-up of the same region.

• Similar diagrams are used from chapter to chapter to make further comparison possible: GNP Range, Population Pyramids, Demographic Transition, and Consumer Goods Ownership.

• Similar maps in each chapter highlight regional comparisons: population distribution, relief, climates and land uses. New maps of population distribution and land use are included for each major region.

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