Definitions provided by the ever-efficient online dictionary-- Wikipedia :p
1. Globalisation and Culture
Globalization literally means, The development of the integration of economic, cultural, political, and social systems through internationalization and localization. The world is becoming a smaller place, because of Globalization; this can be applied to many different fields.
Wondered if you guys have heard of the concept of the "Shrinking World" from the human geography side? Well, i did=) It is basically about the idea of having more air routes and cheaper plane tickets in this new age thus people travel more and the geographical distances between countries has yet to be insignificant!
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance.
What is Globalisation?
Globalisation BAD for Africa?!?
Overall View of the entire World
2. Environment and Biodiversity, Sustainable devlopment
Biodiversity is the variation of taxonomic life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems.
Sustainable development is defined as balancing the fulfilment of human needs with the protection of the natural environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future.
Eupore's appoach to Sustainable development
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/
How about what they do in New Zealand?
http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/nzstories.nsf/htmldocs/Sustainable+Development:+Environment+and+eco-system+resilience
and Australia =)
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/
Eupore's appoach to Sustainable development
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/
How about what they do in New Zealand?
http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/nzstories.nsf/htmldocs/Sustainable+Development:+Environment+and+eco-system+resilience
and Australia =)
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/
3. Terrorism and War
Terrorism in the modern sense is violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians for political or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are intended to create fear or "terror", are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or utterly disregard the safety of non-combatants.
The War List
Links for Iraq War related stuffs
Some bite-size info on Terrorism and War
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