A challenging and essential introduction to Human Geography for students beginning college courses. It will appeal to the student doing a single course in geography as part of wider study as well as providing a firm theoretical and empirical platform on which the serious geographer can build. Human Geographies: Issues for the 21st Century has been written as a course text for students embarking on degree courses that reflect the changing priorities and new directions embraced by human geography. The analysis and interpretation of geographical change in the contemporary world is not bound by a narrow national or super-regional focus but extends to the examination of issues and problems at the global scale.