Globalization and Sustainability

Globalisation:

Trading, technological advances,

According to Marcotullio & Lo (2001), the term globalisation is frequently associated with trading and economical aspects. However, the context has a wide connotation including migration flows, media and even culture. Economic development of the countries involving technological advances, trading of goods, services, information, migration flows among some other significant aspects. The international trade between countries and the dependency of each other’s commodities are the consequences of capitalism and the current manufacturing practices and mass production worldwide.

Globalisation and Urban settlement:

Through the ages the geographical location of certain cities has given an economical advantage among others when it comes to trading, particularly those cities with access to the sea or rivers were the concentration the economic activities has boosted the development of entire nations over the past centuries, as traditionally used to be. Nevertheless, there are also cities well known as industrial or manufacturing due to the concentration of specific industries allocated in certain areas where the availability of materials, resources, land and adequate conditions converge to make this regions appropriate for a wide variety of industries, for instance agricultural, livestock, fishing, food, textile, and mining, among others.

On the other hand, the centralisation of the economic activity is the result of the conglomeration of company’s headquarters and financial centres based in particular cities called “global”, where people are attracted to move into this big cities due to the high income expectancies and wealth.

According to the World Urbanisation Prospect Report (United Nations, 2014), the percentage of the human population living in urban areas is currently 54, and it is expected that this figures will increase in 12 percent within the next 36 years. Yet, the figures attaches other significant problems for the inhabitants living on urban spaces such as the lack of access to basic services, the demand of energy, high pollution levels and poverty in general are inadequate living conditions for people, and also the imminent environmental impact induced by the increasingly high population density (National Geographic, 2014).

Availability of Land

Birth rate

Countries such as US and China are struggling with the growth of certain cities where an increasingly high number of people every year  moved out  overcrowded Despite the fact that most countries has plenty of availability of land, still face the threat of invasion to rural lands, due to the

OVERPOPULATION

Many countries of the world are currently experiencing problems caused by rapidly growing populations in urban areas, and both governments and individuals have a duty to find ways to overcome these problems.

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