Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE WORLD TODAY
- GLOBALISATION
- Characteristics
- countries are becoming interrelated
- expansion of capitalism
- the economic system
- Types
- economic
- high mobility of workers, raw materials and capital
- decision-making power transferred from states to large private companies
- concentration wealth, instability and inequality
- Production relocated to other countries and increase in power for multinational
- unemployment and loss of purchasing power
- Scientific and technological
- comunication
- high technology
- Process
- economic
- technological
- social
- cultural
- Disadvantages
- international conflicts
- migrations
- urban and demographic problems
- CONFLICTS
- XXI Century
- Causes
- Economic differences
- Unresolved conflicts relating to other periods of history
- Religious or cultural intolerance
- Consecuences
- Geopolitical tension
- Civil conflicts
- Wars between nations
- Territorial disputes
- Terrorisms
- MIGRATION
- Causes
- Natural
- Force local population to leave their homes
- Catastrophes
- Political
- conflicts and political crises disrupt a country and force
- the emigrants leave their countries, they are called EXILES
- Socioeconomic
- Emigrants seek a better quality of life in terms of: health, education and employment
- Types
- Forced
- Wars
- Persecution
- Natural disasters
- Voluntary
- Economic
- Social
- Professional
- Temporary
- Emigrants return to their home country after a period of time
- Permanent
- Emigrants permanently settle in their destination country
- URBAN PROBLEMS
- Causes
Advantages
- Better employment opportunities
- More services and leisure facilities
- Consecuences
Disadvantage
- Environmental degradation
- Consecuences
Types of pollution: air, noise and water
- Supplies and waste management
- Cause: cities consume large amount of raw materials and energy
- Consecuences: this can result in supply and waste energy
- Social segregation
- In large conurbation there is spatial segregation within the city
- Housing
- Cause: inner city decline and the growth of the urban population
- Consecuences: more and more houses need to be built
- POPULATION
- Population’s characteristic
- Birth rates
- Death rates
- Life expectancy
- Natural population growth
- Birth rates
- Number of people who born
- Death rates
- Number of people who die
- Life expectancy
- Number of years a person is expected to live
- Natural population growth
- Tells us how a population has developed or changed in a specific period