All Connected Now: Life In The First Global Civilization - Couverture souple

Anderson, Walter Truett

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081334154X ISBN 13 : 9780813341545

Editeur : Westview Press, 2003

Synopsis

Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change - economic, political, cultural, biological - all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of symbols, goods, people, and non-human life forms. Anderson describes how we are entering an "age of open systems" as systems of all kinds - organizations, nations, ecosystems - change in similar ways. Boundaries around systems are penetrated, challenged, renegotiated, relocated. Systems that were once relatively isolated develop new connections and linkages to other systems. Anderson argues that this globalizing world is radically "uncentralized" even though people and societies are richly interconnected. All Together Now shows how globalization is advanced even by anti-globalization movements, while global-scale problems such as climate change draw us together into the first global civilization.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Walter Truett Anderson is a political scientist, social psychologist, syndicated journalist and author of wide-ranging interests whose previous books include Evolution Isn't What It Used To Beand The Future of the Self. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, he works with a number of different organizations and currently serves as president of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Westview Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081334154X
• ISBN 13: 9780813341545
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible