A World in Crisis

The 1970's witnessed widespread recognition of the world as a single, interconnecting whole. The 1980's have shown that this whole is not operating as a self-sustaining system. In short we appear to live in a world in crisis- manifesting itself in hunger, poverty, debt, conflict, statelessness and war, as well as in the accelerating degradation of the natural environment. The geographical perspectives of World in Crisis? - in this completely revised and updated edition - show the interlinking nature of global, regional, and local problems and, further, that these are not uniquely economic, ecological, political or social, but all these and more.

R. J. Johnston is the editor of A World in Crisis, published by Wiley. Peter James Taylor, FBA, FAcSS is an English geographer. Born in Calverton in Nottinghamshire, he was Professor of Political Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne between 1970 and 1996, before joining Loughborough University as Professor of Geography Since 2010 he was worked at Northumbria University.

Preface	p. viii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. x
Introduction: A World in Crisis?	p. 1
The Geography of International Economic Disorder	p. 16
Draining the World of Energy	p. 79
Food Production and Distribution - and Hunger	p. 101
The Use of Natural Resources in Developing and Developed Countries	p. 125
Malthus, Marx and Population Crises	p. 151
World Capitalism and the Destruction of Regional Cultures	p. 175
The Individual and the World-Economy	p. 200
The Question of National Congruence	p. 229
The New Geopolitics: The Dynamics of Geopolitical Disorder	p. 266
World-Power Competition and Local Conflicts in the Third World	p. 289
The World-Systems Project	p. 333
Epilogue: Our Planet is Big Enough for Peace but Too Small for War	p. 355
List of Contributors	p. 358
Index	p. 361
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