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Globalization : The Crucial Phase / ed. by Brian Spooner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) : 51 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781934536780
  • 9781934536797
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/2 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Globalization via World Urbanization -- Part One: Assessment -- 2 Development Trends Among the World's Socially Least Developed Countries (SLDCs): Reasons for Guarded Optimism -- 3 Human Genetic Diversity in a Global Context -- 4 The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: A Drama in Three Acts -- 5 "Where Everything Is Political": Architecture Against Politics in Global Dubai -- Part Two: Habitat -- 6 If There Is Food, We Will Eat: An evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutrition -- 7 Aspects of Animal Production in Global Food Supply -- 8 Issues in Global Health -- 9 Global Oral Health -- 10 Cities: Threats and Opportunities for Women's Health -- 11 Pharmaceuticals and the Competitive Logic of Global Clinical Trials -- Part Three: Application -- 12 Preparing Lawyers for Practice in an Era of Global Urbanization: A Proposal for Transnational Clinical Partnerships -- 13 Towards a Comprehensive Response to Victims of Sex Trafficking -- 14 Globalization and the University: A Relationship Worth Studying? -- 15 Academically Based Global Service Learning
Summary: Throughout human history, the rate of world population growth overall has been outpaced by the rate of urban population growth. Right now, more the half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion will only increase in the next fifty years. Rapid urban growth accelerates the exchange of ideas, the expansion of social networks, and the diversity of human interactions that accompany globalization. The present century is therefore the crucial phase, when the world's increasing interconnectedness may give rise to innovation and collaboration or intensify conflict and environmental disaster.Bringing together scholars of anthropology and social science as well as law and medicine, Globalization: The Crucial Phase presents a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the way the world is changing. The contributors reveal the changing scale of social, economic, and financial diversity, examine the impact of globalization on the environment, health, and nutrition; and consider the initiatives to address the social problems and opportunities that arise from global migration. Collectively, these diverse interdisciplinary perspectives provide an introduction to vital research and policy initiatives in a period that will bring great challenges but also great potential.Contributors: Nancy Biller, Christina Catanese, Robert J. Collins, Megan Doherty, Zhengxia Dou, Richard J. Estes, James Ferguson, David Galligan, Mauro Guillén, Cameron Hu, John D. Keenan, Alan Kelly, Janet M. Monge, Marjorie Muecke, Neal Nathanson, Sarah Paoletti, Adriana Petryna, Alan Ruby, Theodore G. Schurr, Brian Spooner, Joseph S. Sun, Zhiguo Wu, Huiquan Zhou.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Globalization via World Urbanization -- Part One: Assessment -- 2 Development Trends Among the World's Socially Least Developed Countries (SLDCs): Reasons for Guarded Optimism -- 3 Human Genetic Diversity in a Global Context -- 4 The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: A Drama in Three Acts -- 5 "Where Everything Is Political": Architecture Against Politics in Global Dubai -- Part Two: Habitat -- 6 If There Is Food, We Will Eat: An evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutrition -- 7 Aspects of Animal Production in Global Food Supply -- 8 Issues in Global Health -- 9 Global Oral Health -- 10 Cities: Threats and Opportunities for Women's Health -- 11 Pharmaceuticals and the Competitive Logic of Global Clinical Trials -- Part Three: Application -- 12 Preparing Lawyers for Practice in an Era of Global Urbanization: A Proposal for Transnational Clinical Partnerships -- 13 Towards a Comprehensive Response to Victims of Sex Trafficking -- 14 Globalization and the University: A Relationship Worth Studying? -- 15 Academically Based Global Service Learning

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Throughout human history, the rate of world population growth overall has been outpaced by the rate of urban population growth. Right now, more the half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion will only increase in the next fifty years. Rapid urban growth accelerates the exchange of ideas, the expansion of social networks, and the diversity of human interactions that accompany globalization. The present century is therefore the crucial phase, when the world's increasing interconnectedness may give rise to innovation and collaboration or intensify conflict and environmental disaster.Bringing together scholars of anthropology and social science as well as law and medicine, Globalization: The Crucial Phase presents a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the way the world is changing. The contributors reveal the changing scale of social, economic, and financial diversity, examine the impact of globalization on the environment, health, and nutrition; and consider the initiatives to address the social problems and opportunities that arise from global migration. Collectively, these diverse interdisciplinary perspectives provide an introduction to vital research and policy initiatives in a period that will bring great challenges but also great potential.Contributors: Nancy Biller, Christina Catanese, Robert J. Collins, Megan Doherty, Zhengxia Dou, Richard J. Estes, James Ferguson, David Galligan, Mauro Guillén, Cameron Hu, John D. Keenan, Alan Kelly, Janet M. Monge, Marjorie Muecke, Neal Nathanson, Sarah Paoletti, Adriana Petryna, Alan Ruby, Theodore G. Schurr, Brian Spooner, Joseph S. Sun, Zhiguo Wu, Huiquan Zhou.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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