Globalization and the Society

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In this essay the writer discusses that the problems regarding globalization and the prospective of sustainable development have mostly been dealt with at an academic and political level. The writer maintains that further efforts have to be focused on stressing the importance of sustainability in the eyes of the public. The writer examines various books regarding globalization and maintains that there is definitely, nowadays, a need for behavioral change, but many of the values and the attitudes that reflect them are already in place. The writer concludes that the change has to be reflected in governmental, corporate, social and individual behavior. No matter how important the issue or the solution, sustainability efforts have to be integrated in order to ensure success.

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"Sustainable development can also be defined by what it hopes to achieve. There were, in the last half of century, different documents written and different congresses organized on the topic. It is helpful to further investigate distinct sets of goals that use different time-horizons: short-term, two-generation goals and long-term. Major concerns regard climate, clean air, land and ocean productivity, fresh water and biodiversity. On the short term, these can be achieved through equity, health, education, housing and security. Preserving the essential health, services, and beauties of the environment requires special efforts from each community. It is unproductive to think that one community is more culpable than another and, thus, should make more efforts. The environmental problems concern all people."

Sample of Sources Used:

• World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED, 1987)), Our Common Future, New York: Oxford University Press
• Speth., J. G. (Ed.) (2003), Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment, Washington, D.C.: Island Press
• Kates, R. W., Thomas M. P. & Anthony A. L. (2005), What is Sustainable Development? Goals, Indicators, Values, and Practice, Rpt. In Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47(3): http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/whatisSD_env_kates_0504.pdf.
• Lebel, L. (2004), Taking a Consumption Perspective on Global Environmental Change, Rpt. in APN Newsletter 10(1): 4-6, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/lebel_consumption_apn0401.pdf.
• Gallopin, G. C. (2004), Sustainable Development: Epistemological Challenges to Science and Technology, Rpt. In: http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/gallopin_epistem0410_bgpaper.pdf.

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