World in Crisis

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 viiiPreface to the Second Edition x1 Introduction: A World in Crisis? 12 The Geography of International Economic Disorder 163 Draining the World of Energy 794 Food Production and Distribution - and Hunger 1015 The Use of Natural Resources in Developing and Developed Countries 1256 Malthus, Marx and Population Crises 1517 World Capitalism and the Destruction of Regional Cultures 1758 The Individual and the World-Economy 2009 The Question of National Congruence 22910 The New Geopolitics: The Dynamics of Geopolitical Disorder 26611 World-Power Competition and Local Conflicts in the Third World 28912 The World-Systems Project 33313 Epilogue: Our Planet is Big Enough for Peace but Too Small for War 355List of Contributors 358Index 361