Summary Cambridge International AS and A Level Geography second edition - Economic transition Globilisation
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Cambridge International AS and A Level Geography second edition
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as more and more countries organise themselves into trade blocs.
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of its member nation states. - Competition within and between the different levels of the borders and the desire to move across such
- The United Nations has intervened militarily in an increasing number of global urban hierarchy is intensifying. borders has increased considerably in recent
countries in recent times, leading some writers to talk decades.
about the gradual movement to - More and more communities are becoming
'world government'. multicultural in nature.
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Transnational corporations have been the major native language.
force in the process of increasing economic
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magazines. - Increasingly, economic activity in one country has had an
regions within MEDCs feel excluded from the
- The international interest in brand-name clothes and shoes, fast food impact on the environment in other nations.
benefits of globalisation.
and branded soft drinks and beers, pop music and major sports stars - The long- range transportation of airborne pollutants is the
has never been greater. most obvious evidence of this process.
- However, cultural transmission is not a one-way process. - The global environmental conferences in Rio de Janeiro
- The popularity of Islam has increased considerably in many Western (1992) and Johannesburg (2002) is evidence that most
countries, as has Asian, Latin American and African cuisine. countries see the scale of the problems as so large that only
coordinated by international action can bring realistic
solutions.
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