Zusammenfassung der Ressource
GLOBALISATION EQ2: What are the
impacts of globalisation for countries,
different groups of people and cultures
and the physical environment?
- 3.4- The global shift has created
winners and losers for people and
the physical environment
- Communities have experienced major environmental problems
- Canada, Tar Sands
- Because of water
pollution, Northern Pike
are being deformed
- Drug dealing is becoming a bigger problem amongst the younger inhabitants
- A sharp increase
in cancer and
cancer related
illnesses due to
pollution
- A movement in the global economic centre of gravity
- India- Services
- Visibly underdeveloped and slower growth than China
- China- Manufacturing
- fast 'sprinter' but arguably unsustainable
- 1 authority government makes clear decisions
- Cheap, standard production
- rural areas are losing land for building factories
- Both focusing on
education and
teaching English,
the 'global'
language
- De-industrialised areas face social and environmental problems as a resultof
economic restructuring
- Detroit
- Facing
dereliction,
contamination,
crime and high
unemployment
- Spiral of decline
- Old factories close
- Land becomes derelict
- Jobs lost
- people leave inner city
- Fewer services
needed. Shops and
schools close
- More jobs lost
- More people leave
- people who stay are elderly or low income
- little investment leads to it becoming derelict
- more crime and vandilism
- Quality of life gets worse
- The population has declined from 1,900,000 in 1950 to just 600,000 in 2013
- It is facing $20billion debt
- Owes money to over 100,000 creditors
- 3.5- The scale and pace of economic
migration has increased as the world
has become more interconnected,
creating consequences for people and
the physical environment
- Rural-Urban migration and/or natural
increase is responsible for the growth of
megacities, and rapid growth creates social
and environmental challenges
- Mumbai
- Mumbai accounts for 40% if India's foreign trade
- 1971-1981 pop. growth 38.1%
- Estimated pop. will reach 25.8million by 2025
- Push/Pull factors
- Pull- Better wages, better living conditions, more job opportunity
- Push- war, natural disaster, environmental changes, low wages, political corruption
- International migration has increased in global hub cities and regions, deepening interdependence between regions
- Russian Oligarchs
- UK relies on their investment
- Eugene Schvilder
- Estimated worth- £1.5 billion
- Owns £22 million house in Belgravia
- Migration has economic, social, political and environmental costs and benefits for both host and source locations