Globalization : : The Crucial Phase /

Globalization : : The Crucial Phase / / ed. by Brian Spooner.

Throughout human history, the rate of world population growth overall has been outpaced by the rate of urban population growth. Right now, more the half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion will only increase in the next fifty years. Rapid urban growth accelerates the exc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
MitwirkendeR:
Biller, Nancy,
Catanese, Christina,
Collins, Robert J.,
Doherty, Megan,
Dou, Zhengxia,
Estes, Richard J.,
Ferguson, James,
Galligan, David,
Guillén, Mauro F.,
Hu, Cameron,
Keenan, John D.,
Kelly, Alan,
Monge, Janet M.,
Muecke, Marjorie,
Nathanson, Neal,
Paoletti, Sarah,
Petryna, Adriana,
Ruby, Alan,
Schurr, Theodore G.,
Spooner, Brian,
Sun, Joseph S.,
Suárez, Sandra L.,
Wu, Zhiguo,
Zhou, Huiquan,
HerausgeberIn:
Spooner, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 51 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Globalization via World Urbanization
  • Part One: Assessment
  • 2 Development Trends Among the World's Socially Least Developed Countries (SLDCs): Reasons for Guarded Optimism
  • 3 Human Genetic Diversity in a Global Context
  • 4 The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: A Drama in Three Acts
  • 5 "Where Everything Is Political": Architecture Against Politics in Global Dubai
  • Part Two: Habitat
  • 6 If There Is Food, We Will Eat: An evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutrition
  • 7 Aspects of Animal Production in Global Food Supply
  • 8 Issues in Global Health
  • 9 Global Oral Health
  • 10 Cities: Threats and Opportunities for Women's Health
  • 11 Pharmaceuticals and the Competitive Logic of Global Clinical Trials
  • Part Three: Application
  • 12 Preparing Lawyers for Practice in an Era of Global Urbanization: A Proposal for Transnational Clinical Partnerships
  • 13 Towards a Comprehensive Response to Victims of Sex Trafficking
  • 14 Globalization and the University: A Relationship Worth Studying?
  • 15 Academically Based Global Service Learning

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