Global Awareness: Thinking Systematically About the World - Couverture souple

Clark, Robert P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0742515931 ISBN 13 : 9780742515932

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002

Synopsis

This book raises students' awareness and understanding of global trends, forces, and events by showing them how to think about the world systematically. Based on more than a decade of teaching about global issues to university undergraduates, the book focuses on understanding globalization and its effects on our lives. The book's seven chapters cover important principles and concepts from the systems perspective, such as what a system is, what global systems are, how and why systems grow and decline, what makes global systems invisible, how global issues are addressed as political questions, and others. Seven case studies apply these principles to global issues, such as the AIDS pandemic, endangered species and endangered languages, global energy systems and gasoline prices, contaminated food, and the consequences of the terrorist attacks of 9-11. The book includes two appendices: a glossary of important global system terms, and a description of global systems and cyberspace, including the structure and governance of the Internet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert P. Clark is professor of government in the Department of Public and International Affairs, and coordinator of the interdisciplinary program in global systems, at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. His most recent books on globalization are The Global Imperative: An Interpretive History of the Spread of Humankind (Westview, 1997) and Global Life Systems: Population, Food, and Disease in the Process of Globalization (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742515931
• ISBN 13: 9780742515932
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Rowman & Littlefield; https://rowman.com/; ; 4501 Forbes Blvd, Suite 200; Lanham; MD; 20706; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible