GLOBALIZATION AND URBAN CHANGE

Globalization and Change Management

Bringing forward the concepts of globalization and cultural management is no longer surprising nowadays. The organizations’ concern for performance led frequently to adopting some strategic options that go beyond the national space of origin and rely, to a greater extent, on the globalization phenomenon of production, market and capital. The success, under these circumstances, is conditioned, t...

Conclusion : Change , Globalization and Childhood

Amid all the complications of dealing with globalization and childhood, including its great unevenness, a crucial issue involves its relationship to larger, or at least earlier, processes of change. No conclusion can hope to embrace the various findings of the essays in this collection, but a final comment on this relationship will help. The fundamental transformation of modern childhood began ...

Globalization , Productive Dynamic and Urban Development

Since the eighties, both local productive systems and cities in Europe experience strong adjustment processes that reflect the reaction of the firms and local actors to the challenge of increasing competition. The paper argues that firms' strategies and local initiatives are the answer to changes in the environment and to greater competition. Product quality, product differentiation, more flexi...

Globalization and the Dynamics of Regulatory Change

Globalization, climate change, and human health.

Copyright © 2013 Massachusetts Medical Society. The global scale, interconnectedness, and economic intensity of contemporary human activity are historically unprecedented,1 as are many of the consequent environmental and social changes. These global changes fundamentally influence patterns of human health, international health care, and public health activities.2 They constitute a syndrome, not...