Tibor Faragó

Our Common Environment and Globalization

Shadows and Hopes

Globalization, the global environment, and environmental governance

For a very long time, human activities had no impact on the order and processes of nature on a planetary or even continental scale. The impact of land use, resource use and pollutant emissions, which have intensified at a variable rate with population growth, on the state of Earth’s environmental system was, until the 1990s, far less than the changes caused by natural processes. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the world population had reached one billion, and utilized land accounted for slightly more than ten percent of all ‘habitable’ land area. The amount of land occupied and utilized (e.g., for agricultural purposes) by humanity continued to increase at an accelerating pace from the turn of the twentieth century onwards, as did the rate of the extraction and exploitation of a wide range of raw materials (e.g., fossil fuels, iron ore) in parallel with industrialization.

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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