LIFESCI 2X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Global Health, Coevolution, Virtual Water
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Examples of health benefits of globalization: globalization. An intensification of cross-national cultural, economic, political, social, and technological interactions. You can see the changes spatially over time. Integration of the economy and political processes like the unites nations. At multiple levels, globalization will have profound impacts. It is going to be influencing factors like the financial glows, and the liberalization of trade. Transport has really accelerated this process because it is cheaper and quicker. In a matter of hours you can have the rapid movement of people and goods. Vast fleet of ships that are navigating the world. All of these combined together had created this vast network of information and ideas. Since the 1980s, you can see the worldwide scale increasing in the amounts being created. Moving from developed to developing, there are fewer developing so that is why the numbers are low. There are fewer of them so it explains why the values are on a global scale.