AS and A Level: Global Interdependence & Economic Transition
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Assess the extent to which superpowers influence action on global environmental concerns
Not only is this unreasonable to the rest of the world, but they also consume more than all countries combined, with total emissions it produces is now â of all emissions produced globally. This shows us how significant rising superpowers can be in terms of global concern, as it’s questionable whether that concern would even be present as china is contributing to a large extent. This can also lead to other degradation for instance in Africa. As chinas high demand for natural resources such as steel and copper, they have now moved much of their infrastructure into Africa and have created pollution havens in the region.
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Investigation. Hypothesis: Students from developing countries tend to associate the responsibility of global warming with developed countries.
A person's gender may also have a bearing. This would therefore potentially change their mindset of which the questionnaire does not take into consideration. Hence to maintain consistency, a large group of students must be questioned, ranging from countries from Africa to India to Sweden. This will make the data as accurate as possible and make sure that each region is represented as even within their smaller nationalities, ideas are likely to differ. Method: 1. Two tables were constructed, Table 1 and Table 2.
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Explain the term 'Globalisation' (9)
argues, ?Globalisation has a major feature of separation of time and space, known as Distanciation where disembedding occurs. Along with these features Harvey (1990) argues that the process is also compressed. Therefore, the whole idea of embedding involves around the displacement of originality from their space. For instance, objects such as credit cards are disembedded from their original physical context of coinage, or telephones and emails are disembedded from their original context of face-to-face communication.
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Assess the extent to which technological Innovation has unforesen social, economic and environmental costs
Due to incomplete combustion of the fuel, carbon particulates are released into the air. This is seen in not only the production of technology, but in transport too. Despite more cars becoming more fuel efficient, 99.99% of all cars (1.2bn worldwide) run on fossil fuels. Although some cars have catalytic converters, carbon particulates are released in the older cars. When consumed these particles can cause serious health issues such as asthma and in some cases lung disease. Serious health problems that can sometimes lead to fatalities. The automotive industry is worth over $1.6 trillion, and provides 7.25 million jobs.
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Examine the role TNCs play in the growth of globalization.
Nike?s factories are in every continent except Africa, due to their lack of infrastructure and industrial power. Though Nike has 124 factories in China, 73 in Thailand and 34 in Vietnam. These would all be regarded as less economically developed countries, as the majority of their population lives in poverty or deprivation. The spread of the TNC Nike, shows how it has grown to reach all areas of the globe, it has around 700 stores around the world and in 2015 sold 120,000,000 pair of shoes, most of which would have been mostly made in Asia and exported to countries all around the world.
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