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10 June 2009
Students:Migration and security problems
Created page with '== Migration an security problems relating to globalisation == === Summary === here should be the summary prepared in Lesson 2 ==== Evaluations of Summary ==== {| border=1 | …'
Global Public Goods Management
Created page with 'Whether public goods management, including nature’s services, is anchored in a purely utilitarian manner or a broader concept transcending utilitarianism is adopted, the '''nee…'
File:Moldan Services.jpg
Created page with 'Ecosystem services and well being'
Global public goods and nature services
Created page with 'Bedřich Moldan __NOTOC__ Introduction - '''history of human domination''' ==Ecosystem Services == Nature has its place in the human world above…'
The Issue of Asserting Particular Interests
Created page with 'It is not one dimension – that of the idyllically uniting world (there is no idyll in the union at any rate) - which is interesting in the globalisation process, but how the t…'
The Issue of the Cultural and Civilisational Dominant
Created page with 'Theme of the universal global civilisation opens up an enormous issue – that of the cultural and civilisational dominant, of the role and function of imitation, of cultural exp…'
The Clash of Ideologies and Civilisations Theories
Created page with 'It is inherent that Fukuyama’s optimism was crushed in polemics immediately afterwards, and the global crushing, in part resulting from misunderstanding, culminated in a positi…'
The End of History Theory
Created page with 'American diplomat and philosopher Francis Fukuyama published his famous article ''The End of History'' in 1989. This was one of perhaps twenty articles, not books, which changed …'
Defining the Sociological Interest in Globalisation
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Global Ambition of Early Sociology
Created page with 'Since the Cartesian Revolution and since gaining autonomy, all social sciences have sought to approximate the ideal of natural sciences, sometimes even to become natural sciences…'
The social dimension and sociological treatment of globalisation
Created page with '__NOTOC__ Author: Miloslav Petrusek, sociology, theoretical sociology, and sociology of contemporary societies at Charles University of Prague Faculty of Social Science *[[Globa…'
Gender and the global labour market
Created page with '=='''Gender and the global labour market'''== '''Bojana Ziberna, University of Maribor''' In this article we look briefly at the impact of globalization in terms of opportuniti…'
Change in Gender Role in Slovenia at the beginning of 21st century
Created page with '== Abstract == In this study we have compared situation in Slovenia and situation in more egalitarian countries on the field of gender roles. We want to show some differences be…'
Globalisation and gender
Created page with '== SUMMARY == A survey of the globalization process, gender scholarships and theorists who study this phenomena and its effect on gender system is presented in this paper. Autho…'
Students:Sports in Nature - Lesson 2
Created page with '== Orienteering == Here should be some summary about the Orienteering === Links === ==== External Links ==== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienteering Orienteering] in Wikipe…'
Students:Sports in Nature - Lesson 1
Created page with '== Orienteering == === Summary === here should be the summary prepared in Lesson 2 === Links === ==== External Links ==== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienteering Orienteerin…'
Help:Structure of the page
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VCSEwiki:Sandbox
Created page with 'Welcome to the VCSEWiki Sandbox! This page allows you to carry out experiments. To edit, click "edit this page above", make your changes and click the "Save page" button when fin…'
Help:Editing
Created page with 'This is only basic shortened Help from Wikipedia, if you want to know more, be so kind and use directly the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page Wikipedia Help …'
Help:Starting a new Page
Created page with '== Starting a page from a link, or after a search == To start a new page, you can click a link to the new page. This takes you to edit mode of the non-existing blank page, which …'
Corporate Responsibility
Created page with 'Networks and projects that should increase the corporate responsibility - examples: [http://www.wbcsd.ch/ '''World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)'''] – a…'
The Corporations’ Response to Globalisation Problems
Created page with 'Analogously to the central dissension of globalisation, a barrier divides the advocates of optionality (competition) from those of bindingness (regulation) in the dispute over ''…'
Neo-liberal concept and its consequences
Created page with '__NOTOC__ Under fire of criticism (mostly by the civil society), which has pointed out the massive social costs of insensitive, blanket enforcement of structural adjustment progr…'
Market-based Solutions to Globalisation Problems
Created page with '=== Liberal and Regulatory Approaches === The core dissension within the current debate over (economic) globalisation is the conflict between competition and regulation. Advocat…'
Definitions: public goods
Created page with '==Private goods== ''People's well-being'' depends on a ''mix of private goods and public goods''. '''Private goods''' are those which we can appropriate--call "ours", e.g. by pa…'
Globalisation Glossary
Created page with 'These terms concentrate predominantly on the economic factors connected to collective action and global public goods. To do this, the key terms in economic theory should be expla…'
Psychological Barriers to Solving Global Problems
Created page with 'The book ''Earth in the Balance'' by former US Vice President Al Gore is one of the best-qualified and most thorough analyses: ‘If a solution to a problem we face obviously cal…'
The market and the global public goods
Created page with '__NOTOC__ === "Steam and Ice": Positive and Negative Impacts of Global Markets === The global market is but one of the fundamental dimensions of globalisation. Increasingly free…'
Global Regulation, Global Business Ethics, and Global Common Good
Created page with '==State Regulation in the Global Context== Markets have been regulated primarily by territorial national states or their integrating blocs. The result of increasing complexity…'
Distribution of Labour and Capital in a Globalised World
Created page with 'Let us now go back to Dembinski’s calculations concerning ‘very big enterprises’ as it seems that it is usually private corporations who open up the path toward future de…'
The Poverty Issue, Debt Cancellation, and Alternative Visions for Globalisation
Created page with '==Reforming Globalisation== The economic dimension of globalisation also comprises analyses and assessment of revenue and wealth distribution throughout the global economy, in…'
Labour Markets, Migration, Marginalisation and Exclusion, Brain Drain
Created page with 'Global labour markets are affected by several crucial factors: *the disproportionate density of populations: overpopulated countries such as India and China are settled 20 times…'
Capital Markets and ‘Financialisation’ of the World
Created page with '===Global Investment Policy=== ‘Financialisation’ of the world is one of the attributes of the economic aspect of globalisation: extension of monetary economics in breadth a…'
Global Markets in Products, Semi-Products, Services and Technologies
Created page with '==The Threat of Protectionism== As far as international institutions influencing global trade are concerned, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), seated in Geneva, is among the m…'
National Post-Sovereignty – Domination of Multinational Corporations
Created page with '==Characteristics of the Present-day State== The reduced sovereignty of the national state world-wide, including even the most powerful, is considered one of the main characteri…'
The economic dimension of globalisation
Created page with '__NOTOC__ Lubomír Mlčoch == Characteristics of global economy == *Evolutionary Stages of the Global Markets: Contraction of Space, Acceleration of time International eco…'
Civic society versus the State and the Market
Created page with 'It is important to bear in mind that CS is a richly variegated conglomerate of different groups, interest, and ideologies. Its attitudes to the market and state, as well as other...'
Global political economy
Created page with '==Value Transformation of the Present-day Society== Another phenomenon that has undoubtedly contributed to the development of global civil society is the association of two seem...'
Civic society in the Network Society
Created page with 'The growth in the number of players transcending national borders goes hand in hand with the decline of the state and territorially approached politics of national interests and ...'
Globalisation and civic society
Created page with '__NOTOC__ == The global civil society phenomenon == The emergence of civil society (CS) in its various forms, which has been seen since the early 1990s, is a fascinating componen...'
VCSEwiki:Other qualities
Created page with 'Did you find some other qualities, special features that could raise the evaluation? Scale for evaluation - points: *0 = NO *1 = Some, but not important *2 = YES, very important'
VCSEwiki:Formal features
Created page with 'Clarity and language; structure and also conciseness. Scale for evaluation - points: *0 - unclear and poorly written *1 - unsufficiently strucured, too long, sentences with miss...'
VCSEwiki:Comprehensive
Created page with 'Summary and annotation describe most important points of the resource and give a comprehensive overview of the topic. They concentrate on the essence of it, not the list of topic...'
VCSEwiki:Type of anotation
Created page with '__NOTOC__ === Indicative === *Defines the source scope, lists significant topics, and tells what the source is about; shorter than an informative annotation because it gives no ...'
Scenarios for possible futures
Created page with '#The first scenario, titled The Davos World, illustrates how the robust economic growth headed by China and India might reshape the nature of globalisation. Both new global playe...'
Development trends
Created page with '#New global players set the first trend. They include India, China and other countries that are going to change the geopolitical scene, like the newly united and rising Germany d...'
An Overview of the Globalisation Problems
Created page with '*The uncontrolled transfer of financial capital, several times exceeding the volume of tradable goods. That poses a risk of economic collapses, several of which have already occu...'
Conventionally considered negative aspects of globalisation
Created page with '*The uncontrolled transfer of financial capital, several times exceeding the volume of tradable goods. That poses a risk of economic collapses, several of which have already occu...'
Conventionally considered positive aspects of globalisation
Created page with '*Growing volume of globally tradable goods. * Speed and complexity of direct investment flows. * Economic growth of originally developing countries (especially South Korea, Tai...'
Differing views
Created page with 'The relations between globalisation and the changing importance and functionality of the national state are very often non-transparent. The pace of such changes has accelerated p...'