World Regional Geography

Helping students delve into cultural and natural features of each region, intriguing "Geography of" boxes feature various focal points of geography while bringing consistent attention to issues of ethnicity, language and religion. Topics include Geography of Energy, Geography of Drug Trafficking, Medical Geography, Geography of Sacred Space and Geography of Terrorism.

The popular "Problem Landscape" boxes incorporate case studies on land use, water rights, boundary disputes and other thematic conflicts to help students understand how geographic issues underlie many of the world's most contentious problems. Topics include Dirty Diamonds, the Troubled Fields of Land Reform and Chechnya.

Offering additional real-world insight, "Regional Perspectives" illustrate the relevance of geographic issues that work their influence across all or part of a region.

Thematic maps centered around such topics as language, religion and ethnicity enable students to quickly draw cultural and regional comparisons.

PROBLEM LANDSCAPE boxes incorporate case studies on land use, water rights, boundary disputes, and other thematic conflicts to help students understand how geographic issues underlie many of the world’s most contentious problems. Topics include Dirty Diamonds, the Troubled Fields of Land Reform, and Chechnya.

More reader friendly than ever, the latest edition of Hobbs' WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY is packed with updated and newly designed maps as well as far more detailed land use and land cover maps for each region.

Increased coverage of the impact of human interaction on geography helps students understand the relevance of the field to everyday life.

Reflecting the latest developments and policies, thoroughly updated IPCC emissions scenarios help spark lively class discussions.

Offering the most up-to-date coverage available, the 7th edition spotlights COVID-19's capacity to change long-standing economic and migration patterns. Coverage of the important research study "A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries" helps students understand why sustainable development is needed and how it is achievable. In addition, the text introduces the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and then references them where relevant in the regional chapters.

Chapter 4, the first regional chapter, focuses on Europe, offering new coverage and maps on the ongoing refugee crisis as well as Brexit -- including discussions of the EU's reluctance to accept new members, partly in reaction to the refugee crisis. The text's new method of combining ethnic and linguistic geographies to aid teaching and learning also is introduced in Chapter 4 and then used in all subsequent chapters.

Reorganized and refreshed, Chapter 6 on the Middle East and North Africa now provides more detailed and current discussions of geopolitical issues.