Tibor Faragó

Our Common Environment and Globalization

Shadows and Hopes

Impacts of extreme natural events: some enlightening international cases

Abrupt extreme environmental events and longer-term changes in environmental conditions with harmful socio-economic impacts have occurred repeatedly throughout human history.1 While such extremes vary in type and hazardous impacts from region to region (such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, and hurricanes), globalization has also led to an increase in the number of some (human-induced) extreme natural incidents that have caused considerable societal and economic impacts and damage. In addition, more frequent, recurrent meteorological and hydrometeorological extremes may also indicate the beginning of, or already ongoing, relatively slow unidirectional environmental change. In other words, such trends might be anticipated based on time series analysis (based on the frequencies and ‘amplitudes’ of such extremes).2 Some instructive examples of social, economic, and environmental interactions with severe outcomes that have had significant international consequences (such as mass migration and the need for international aid and humanitarian cooperation) are recalled below.

Our Common Environment and Globalization

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 076 7

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Globalization has had significant and severe impacts on the Earth’s environment, which is the common home of all human societies, and on which state and resources the life and the well-being of present and future generations depend. This book is devoted to the analysis of the evolution of the environmental globalization process, its drivers and dangerous consequences, and the development of international environmental scientific and policy cooperation. The most important international organizations, programs, and agreements are presented that deal with global environmental problems, and their effectiveness is also evaluated. Based on this comprehensive overview, the most essential conclusions and lessons are defined.

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