Tibor Faragó

Our Common Environment and Globalization

Shadows and Hopes

Anthropogenic environmental impacts and their widespread repercussions

Globalization has increased the scale and diversity of human activities that use, shape, and burden the natural environment. The resulting environmental and socio-economic consequences have become much more damaging and widespread. The latter are in fact the repercussions of human activities that cause environmental spillovers. As with the natural processes referred to above, time plays an important role here, too [Brauch, 2005 1]: the two extremes are (i) phenomena with very short time scales (abrupt incidents) associated with widespread damage and (ii) cases with large-scale adverse outcomes that unfold over decades or centuries. We refer to such examples below and return to some of them when discussing the development of international environmental cooperation.

Our Common Environment and Globalization

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 076 7

Környezettudomány Idegen nyelvű

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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