Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this … book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization … processes of modernization and globalization often result in environmental degradation, they also can encourage policies and …

Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization …, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world's consciousness. Changes in formal …

the sometimes puzzling relationships among purity, price, and risk; the effect of globalization on the heroin and cocaine …

change, shifting product markets, and globalization. Chips and Change also offers insights into how chip firms have developed …

perpetual growth. But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billion Chinese consume … a billion cars, the future of the planet is threatened. But, Cohen points out, there is another kind of globalization …: the immaterial globalization enabled by the Internet. It is still possible, he argues, that the cyber-world will create a …

In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is …

synthesis of fifteen years of research—linking his own work to related research by others—on the globalization of production and …

interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and neoliberal …

globalization on environmental, safety, and labor standards in the shipping industry. She finds that the economic advantages of … to exclude low-standard ships from the advantages of globalization. Open registries are pressured to raise their … requirements of international agreements. Globalization, DeSombre finds, may lead to a downward trend in regulatory standards but …

Globalization is not a new phenomenon; nor is it irreversible. In Globalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey … prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom. The book's originality lies in its application of the tools of open …-economy or single-sector models. The authors also keep a close eye on globalization debates of the 1990s, using history to inform …