This book provides a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21st century, focusing on nine timely global themes as well as insights and ideas for worlds of the future: demographic trends in the contemporary world and migration; problems of development; religion; war, conflict and terrorism; challenges in transportation; media and the world community; the world community and diseases; cities, and the endangered Earth. This book will be of interest to those studying geography, human-environment relations, politics, globalization studies and international relations.

Marcin Solarz is an Associate Professor, PhD habil., Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Introduction Chapter 1. Geographies of World Population: Demographic Trends in the Contemporary World Chapter 2. Geographies of Development in the 21st Century Chapter 3. Many Worlds, One Planet: Ambiguous Geographies of the Contemporary International Community Chapter 4. Twenty-First- Century Cities: From Global Challenges to Local Responses Chapter 5. Geographies of Transportation in the 21st Century Chapter 6. Geographies of Religions: The Religious Factor in Contemporary World Politics. - Analytical Frameworks Chapter 7. Endangered Earth -: Pollution, Resources, Global Change Chapter 8. Arcs of Crises, Zones of Peace? The Geography of Wars, Conflicts and Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 9. Geographies of Twenty-First- Century Disease: Epidemiological Versus Demographic Transition