Green technologies for the environmental upgrading of infrastructures Abstract: Over the last few decades, the globalization phenomenon has determined the exponential development – from an economic, cultural and political standpoint – of traffic flows, the number of means and infrastructures involved in communication and exchange. At the same time, these represent one of the most complicated en...

Globalization can be viewed as the integration of inputs and outputs into global markets, sharing of information and knowledge, and promulgation of rules governing such integration. World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank play a vital role in the process of economic globalization. The positive and negative affects of globalization and the groups that resist and sup...

Across the globe, the phenomenon of youth gangs has become an important and sensitive public issue. In this context, an increasing level of research attention has focused on the development of universalized definitions of gangs in a global context. In this article, we argue that this search for similarity has resulted in a failure to recognize and understand difference. Drawing on an alternativ...

We investigated the temporally evolving network structures of the Japanese and Korean stock markets through the minimum spanning trees composed of listed stocks. We tested the validity of conventional grouping by industrial categories, and found a common trend of decrease for Japan and Korea. This phenomenon supports the increasing external effects on the markets due to the globalization of bot...

Faced to the globalization of the markets, SMEs develop new forms of relationships aimed at reinforcing their productivity. One of them is based on the development of networks of SMEs. Even if this concept is not new (see Italian Industrial Districts in the 19 century), it is now growing at a dynamic pace. The concept of Virtual Organizations Breeding Environment (VBE) is one expression of this...

Globalization is a phenomenon that international organizations increasingly set up rules and regulations affecting all aspects of our world. In the trading of goods and services, there is gradually a new and conformed world order that goods and services are provided under the freetrade principles. Coupled with technological advancements and economic changes, survey and mapping institutions arou...

Economic and political changes in Palau in the last two decades have led to a rapid increase in the numbers of foreign workers. At current levels of growth, Palauans could become a minority in their own country. We examine the global processes that have produced this phenomenon and discuss their social and cultural impacts on Palau. In doing so we examine ways the meanings of work in Palau are ...

In the era of globalization, foreign and local cultures meet each other. The meeting caused some controversy regarding existence culture identity. Globalization will undoubtedly affect position Javanese their identity now. now are hybrid who can take accept filter outside culture. women face more problems than men. patriarchal domination problem women's in globalization. film "Tilik" is a short...