1. 1. Geography Matters
2. 2. The Changing Global Context
3. 3. Geographies of Population and Migration
4. 4. People and Nature
5. 5. Cultural Geographies
6. 6. Language, Communication, and Belief
7. 7. Interpreting Places and Landscapes
8. 8. Geographies of Economic Development
9. 9. Geographies of Food and Agriculture
10. 10. Political Geographies
11. 11. Urbanization and the Global Urban System
12. 12. City Spaces: Urban Structure

A distinctly modern look at human geography gives meaning to people and places

• Interdependence of people and places, especially the interactive relationships between the core and the periphery.
• Social and cultural differences that are embedded in human geographies, especially the differences that relate to race, ethnicity, gender, age, and class.
• The relationship between global processes and their local manifestations.
• The continuing transformation of the political economy of the world system and nations, regions, cities, and localities.
• Promotes a strong connection between topical and regional material by emphasising how their processes are linked (e.g., technological innovation and the varying ways technology is adopted and modified by people and places).
• Facilitates meaningful comparisons between people and places in different parts of the world, such as how the core-generated industrialisation of agriculture shapes gender relations in households, both in the core and in the periphery.
• Presents the relevant aspects of academic human geography (e.g., geopolitics and its role in the social construction of spaces and places).

• NEW! A new organisational structure now includes standalone chapters on Cultural Geographies and Language, Communication, and Belief.
• NEW! Chapter 6: Language, Communication, and Belief gives a better focus on how both language and religion reflect and influence societies, as well as how they spread around the world, and how they permeate politics and social life.
• UPDATED! A changing-world perspective takes a contemporary approach to human geography, reflecting many trends in the discipline. The Seventh Edition provides the most up-to-date coverage with amplified and integrated emphasis on the critical topics and themes of today
• UPDATED! A renewed focus on fundamentals gives students access not only to the new ideas, concepts, and theories that address the changes mentioned above, but also to the fundamentals of human geography: the principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and basic knowledge
• UPDATED! The Visualising Geography features consistently incorporate edgy, modern applications and visualisations of current spatial data. Highly visual, these interesting and challenging Infographics are unique, and set apart Knox/Marston’s visual program even further from other texts of its kind.
• NEW! Spatial Inequality features highlight the growing imbalances and inequalities in today’s global society relative to the chapter’s major themes.