Political Geography

This book covers the field of human geography that is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures. Conventionally, political geography adopts a threescale structure for the purposes of analysis with the study of the state at the centre, above this is the study of international relations (or geopolitics), and below it is the study of localities. The primary concerns of the sub-discipline can be summarised as the inter-relationships between people, state, and territory. Each level is covered within this book's chapters.Selected Contents:Introduction; Assessing the Impact of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement on Australian and Global Medicines Policy; Collective Rights in a Modernizing NorthOn Institutionalizing Sámi and Local Rights to Land and Water In Northern Norway; Land Use/Cover Dynamics in Response to Changes in Environmental and Socio-Political Forces in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, China; Targeting Deforestation Rates in Climate Change Policy: A ""Preservation Pathway"" Approach; Poverty Reduction in Africa; Willingness of Upstream and Downstream Resource Managers to Engage in Compensation Schemes for Environmental Services; Presentation of a New Model to Measure National Power of the Countries; Borders as Membranes: Metaphors and Models for Improved Policy in Border Regions; Carving Up the East China Sea; Geopolitics versus Globalization; The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior; Climate-Derived Tensions in Arctic Security; Index