The social, economic and environmental impacts of increased globalisation by Louis Hill

Sustainability

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-19 04:20:00 UTC

Sustainability is the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources to maintain an ecological balance.

Sustainability is the ability to meet the current needs of the population without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

Social Impacts

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:35:00 UTC

Impacts that have consequences for people or communities.

Economic Impacts

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:37:22 UTC

Any impact on the economy or economic activity in a specific area.

Environmental Impacts

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:39:47 UTC

Any impact that affects the natural environment or built environment in a specific area.

Globalisation

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:42:02 UTC

The increasing interconnectedness and interdependence between countries.

Tourism

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:44:26 UTC

Tourism can be a main source of income for towns and countries as well as a way for people to learn about other cultures, while spreading parts of their own.

Outsourcing vs. Offshoring

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:47:37 UTC

Certain products have been made cheaper due to companies outsourcing labour. This has created things like fast fashion and led to cheap products becoming normal. This also causes local businesses and small businesses to suffer as their prices are higher due to labour and material costs.

Offshoring creates similar issued but must be from a different country, often with less protection for labourers, while outsourcing can happen anywhere.

Carbon Emissions

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:52:15 UTC

The increasing movements of people and goods for trade and tourism has led to larger amounts of carbon emissions, which increases pollution and fuel consumption.

Global Co-operation

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 04:58:14 UTC

Countries have formed multilateral environmental agreements that allows multiple countries to work together to achieve environmental goals. As well as the UN Environmental Assembly which unites many nations of the world in discussions regarding the environment.

Sharing of Cultures

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 05:05:25 UTC

As people travel and communicate with the internet, they start to share elements of their culture and pick up elements of other cultures. This is called diffusion.

Loans and Support

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 05:16:21 UTC

The increased connections between countries allows for countries to loan money to each other and support countries that are struggling.

Wars

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 05:18:21 UTC

Due to more connections and alliances between countries, wars affect a wider range of people who it wouldn't have affected before. This causes more casualties and creates more economic turmoil.

Offshoring

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-22 05:23:26 UTC

Offshoring production is often from more developed countries (MDC) to less developed countries (LDC). LDCs often have less strict labour laws and less developed technology that releases large amounts of pollution.

Global Economy

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-23 06:12:46 UTC

The Global Economy allows for goods produced anywhere to be bought anywhere. However, this can lead to global shortages or global depressions.

Cultural World Cities

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-23 06:50:01 UTC

A cultural world cities tend to be the location of high-quality universities and research institutions. These institutions supply corporations, that are often based in the same city, with skilled employees, new ideas, and new technology to keep businesses successful.

Economic World Cities

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-23 06:53:23 UTC

These cities often contain head offices of multinational corporations, the world's most important stock exchanges, and some of the largest world banks. They may also contain other top business and financial firms, in things like insurance, or law.

Multi-National Corporations

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-23 06:58:14 UTC

MNCs are some of the main instigators and results of globalisation. By doing business in multiple countries, they create connections between the countriy the head office in based in and every country they operate in.

Dialects of the same language

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-23 06:59:27 UTC

The spread of languages like English around the world has led to the same language having different variants with different slang, colloquialisms, and idioms often in places that had other languages.

Understanding the Scale of Issues

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-25 01:58:15 UTC

Due to the increase communication between countries, people have been able to better understand the scale of issues we face and access a wider variety of resources to counteract these issues.

Indecision

lucyhill4 — 2025-09-25 02:04:41 UTC

Due to the range of countries that are now interacting, countries and organisations struggle to make decisions quickly. This is especially noticeable when the decision would require input or resources from other countries.