Globalisation Risks and Opportunities

The handbook was produced in cooperative effort of students in 2009/2010 Multiple Perspectives on Globalisation and Sustainable Development VCSE Course.

Special thanks to the students who invested an extreme effort into the work within the course and beyond its compulsory assignements.

Introduction

• Is globalisation a neutral process? - introductory thesis & life discussion record
• Different perceptions of globalisation - Svea Wehling: Justifiable Risk or headless Fear? The Difference between experienced and factual Disadvantages of a Process called Globalisation (& abstract)

Features & risks of globalized world

Environmental problems and possible solutions

• Jule Kathinka Plawitzki - Loss of Biodiversity- caused and solved by Globalization? (& abstract)
• Henning Strate - Challenges to Energy Security - Is a demonization of conventional energy production under current global trends beneficial? (& abstract)
• Lina Samoske - Sustainable Solar Energy (& abstract)
• Marenka Krasomil - The New Economic Market: Water (& abstract)

Social point of view

• Stefan Marx - National laws for global capital markets - A contradiction? (& abstract)
• Corinna Lohrengel - Media and culture in a globalized world (& abstract)
• Ilknur Yilmaz - Security – global safety or collective danger? (& abstract)
• Josef Nový - Integration and tolerance (& abstract)
• Fabian Siggemann - Shaping globalization: Braindrain in times of globalization (& abstract)
• Irmawan Rahyadi - Global-labor, Risk or Opportunity? (& abstract)

Conclusions

• Julia Wolter - Society and Globalization (& abstract)
• Jule Kathinka Plawitzki - World Environment Organization: a possible solution?