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Student Study Guide to accompany Peter Haggett GEOGRAPHY: A GLOBAL SYNTHESIS Pearson Education  Contents To the Student Chapter 1 On the Beach Chapter 2 The Earth as a Lonely Planet Chapter 3 The Ever-changing Climate Chapter 4 The Biosphere Chapter 5 Human Origins and Dispersals Chapter 6 Population Dynamics Chapter 7 Culture Chapter 8 An Urbanizing World Chapter 9 Pressures on the Ecosystem Chapter 10 Resources and Conservation Chapter 11 Our Role in Changing the Face of the Earth Chapter 12 The Web of Regions Chapter 13 Flows and Networks Chapter 14 Nodes and Hierarchies Chapter 15 Surfaces Chapter 16 Spatial Diffusion Chapter 17 Territorial Tensions Chapter 18 Economic Inequalities Chapter 19 Globalization Chapter 20 The Global Burden of Disease Chapter 21 Maps and Mapping Chapter 22 Environmental Remote Sensing Chapter 23 Geographic Information Systems Chapter 24 On Going Further in Geography Appendix Progress Check Answers  To the Student This Study Guide is designed to assist you in understanding the material presented in Geography: A Global Synthesis. Specifically, the goals of this Study Guide are threefold: to encourage detailed examination of portions of the textual material to help relate material which you learn to the environment with which you are most familiar; and, to assist in the ‘synthesis’ which is noted in the title of the text Each chapter in this Study Guide corresponds to a chapter in the text, and is divided into three distinct sections. First, preceding the actual study material for each chapter, is a list of ‘objectives’ whose purpose is to help you better understand exactly what it is that you are supposed to learn from that chapter. These objectives are necessarily stated in rather broad terms but should nevertheless allow you to better focus your study efforts and organise your ‘findings’. Secondly, following the statement of chapter objectives, is a set of questions and exercises which can be comple