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 …