The development of shrimp aquaculture in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam is implicated in several patterns of local and regional change. These change trajectories are the emergent properties of complex processes embedded in particular social and spatial contexts. While places have become more interconnected through the global shrimp trade, those interconnections have been highly uneven, distributing risks and rewards disproportionately and producing new forms of conflict and cooperation among participants in the production network.Land use and farming systems in the coastal delta have changed profoundly in recent years. While some areas have become effectively `locked in' to shrimp farming due to environmental changes initiated by salt-water aquaculture, others have remained more flexible, able to rotate rice and shrimp seasonally. Hydrologic conditions, water infrastructures, and farmer experience all contribute to the path-dependence of these change trajectories, but commodity prices exhibit the strongest influence on their direction. Price stabilization may contribute to making prices a sustaining, `slow' variable in system change, not a disruptive `fast' one, heightening overall resilience.The production network of Mekong Delta shrimp is articulated through a variety of socially embedded relationships. Most producers are linked with international markets through informal ties with input suppliers based on trust and shrimp buyers, a relationship marked by opportunism. Processors operate through long-term informal relations with importers based on quality and consistency. This variegated network of relationships means farmers bear the brunt of price shocks, but processors lack quality assurance and traceability. Efforts to link chain participants into closer affiliation must pay attention to these relationships' effects on commodity chain governance.The globalization of the shrimp industry brought about conflicts between producers in the Mekong and Mississippi Deltas. Feminist geographers have posited several responses to globalization, from `counter-topographies' to `diverse economies/resubjectivization.' Living in Viet Nam and working with shrimp producers, I attempted to use these approaches to articulate an internationalist and trans-regional politics. Interactions with people there primarily resubjectivized me and reinforced national-scaled spatial imaginaries, however. Nevertheless, being `Uncle America' offered an insightful perspective into how some Vietnamese understood themselves and Viet Nam's tortured relationship with the U.S.

The theoretical argument of this study is that economic globalization, by default, exerts a downward pressure on the social policies of states largely through the operations of transnational corporations. However, since globalization’s effect on social policy is conditional on endogenous political forces such as regime type, democratization, electoral competition and political participation, its proclivity to retrench the welfare state is averted by the preferences of political actors and institutions to expand social spending. This argument found consistent empirical support via a series of cross-section regressions that estimated the interactive effects of economic globalization and various measures of domestic political institutions and affiliations for a sample of 120 countries from 1970 to 2002. Case studies of South Korea, Chile and Spain provided additional qualitative evidence for the study’s theoretical argument.

The diploma thesis aims to verify the validity of neorealism, institutional neoliberalism, and critical geopolitics about consequences of the economic globalization for the structure of Finnish and Swedish defence forces. For this purporse, the author primary used the method of congruence. The next step led to the comparison of congruence between observance implications and theories predictions. Based on the results of the Finnish defence forces, the theory of neorealism was confirmed because there is no significant shift in the scope/structure of defence forces in the favor of expeditionary/reconnaissance units. Moreover, there is no evidence to waive the balance of power reasoning even in the geopolitically-low-intesive region. Last but not least, it was shown that difference between the Finnish and Swedish geografic location is one of the key factor for its distinct approach towards potentional threats and instruments how to resolve them. Key words: economic globalization, security, defence forces, Finland, Sweden

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between economic globalization and human development in low to medium developed countries and to see if different aspects of economic globalization have different effects on human development. The theoretical starting point of this study assumes that an increased level of economic globalization will lead to increased human development as governments will create new regimes aimed to maximize economic growth and to increase the welfare of the citizens. This study uses a quantitative method where statistical testing is preferred in order to be able to examine how economic globalization affects human development. The results of this study indicate that economic globalization has a positive effect on human development and that it is mainly trade globalization that makes up that effect, while financial globalization has no significant effect. It also suggests that the effects of economic globalization are weaker for the countries with the lowest levels of human development compared to countries with higher development.

Since the 1970s, Asia has experienced rapid urbanization processes, which are distinct from U.S. society, and the direction of Asian urbanization is more strongly affected by economic globalization. The desakota model, proposed by McGee and Ginsburg in 1991, focuses on how internal domestic and local forces drive the specific rural-urban transformation in Asia. However, the McGee-Ginsburg model does not emphasize the importance of globalization on Asian urbanization. To fill the gap, this study develops a GIS-based CA framework based on the desakota model to not only simulate the unique urbanization processes in Asia but also integrate the influence of globalization into Asian urban dynamics. Three approaches are developed in the CA simulation: 1) physical constraints and land-use classification from remotely sensed images in 1993, 2000, and 2008, are incorporated into micro-scale transformation; 2) population dynamics, shifts of economic activities, and foreign direct investment (FDIs), a representative of the impact of globalization, are applied for multi-scale interconnection; 3) the Monte Carlo mechanism is finally introduced to combine the above two approaches and implement the simulation process. The Taipei metropolitan area, a rapid urbanizing region that highly interacts with the global economy in Asia, is chosen to examine this model. The CA simulation model establishes a strong interaction between FDIs, an indicator representing impacts of globalization, and the dazzling Asian urban model. The combination of multi-scale economic factors and micro-scale land-use transformation also reveals how urban growth of the Taipei metropolis in recent years fits the characterization of the desakota model, and how desakota regions, the growth generators, interact with city cores. As a result, the research not only successfully links the influence of globalization with the desakota model and simulates urban dynamics of Asian cities but also provides scenarios of different FDI inputs for governments to better handle urban growth with global impacts under the deep economic recession since 2007.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Tuma.pdf: 1100151 bytes, checksum: 3b8629728a7186bd0a58227fe38534d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-22 / The aim of this thesis to discuss the changes and flows by passing the Law of the globalized society. Economic hegemony and its implications for changes in the science of law will be addressed, especially in the approach that can be observed between the two main Western legal systems: civil law system and the common law system. The comparison extends to a specific analysis of labor relations in countries with different economic conformations / A presente tese tem por objetivo discutir as transformações e os fluxos por que passa o Direito dentro da sociedade globalizada. Será abordada a hegemonia econômica e suas implicações nas modificações dentro da ciência do Direito, especialmente na aproximação que pode ser observada entre os dois principais sistemas jurídicos do ocidente: o sistema da civil law e o sistema da common law . A comparação se estende para uma análise específica das relações trabalhistas em países de diferentes conformações econômicas

This thesis first describes and analyzes the key concepts and rationalities that are dominant in the content of the Environmental Enforcement Act (EEA). The research project concludes that despite legislative shifts towards increased punishment and deterrence, key concepts and rationalities such as the importance of economic globalization, the continuation of risk-management and anthropocentric values, and the dominance of staples development can be observed in the content of the EEA. The EEA also reflects growing concerns towards managing known structural economic problems such as Canada’s staples development and economic globalization. Secondly, this thesis critically evaluates whether the EEA is likely to contribute towards the effectiveness of Canadian environmental governance strategies. The EEA is likely to be ineffective based on observations of structural challenges in environmental governance and the Canadian political economic context. Neoliberalism, economic globalization, risk management, anthropocentrism, and staples based economic development characterize the problems identified in existing research that the content of the EEA does not adequately address.

This thesis first describes and analyzes the key concepts and rationalities that are dominant in the content of the Environmental Enforcement Act (EEA). The research project concludes that despite legislative shifts towards increased punishment and deterrence, key concepts and rationalities such as the importance of economic globalization, the continuation of risk-management and anthropocentric values, and the dominance of staples development can be observed in the content of the EEA. The EEA also reflects growing concerns towards managing known structural economic problems such as Canada’s staples development and economic globalization. Secondly, this thesis critically evaluates whether the EEA is likely to contribute towards the effectiveness of Canadian environmental governance strategies. The EEA is likely to be ineffective based on observations of structural challenges in environmental governance and the Canadian political economic context. Neoliberalism, economic globalization, risk management, anthropocentrism, and staples based economic development characterize the problems identified in existing research that the content of the EEA does not adequately address.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:20:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcio Divino.pdf: 488326 bytes, checksum: c2565fce2033bde336b4d12c31877de8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The advance of economic globalization, responsible for some progress in humanity, but also for profound social problems, for example, the increase in the multitude of excluded and poverty stricken in the world is readily observable in contemporary settings. Together with this is the current emergence of market based religion, or, in other words, a religion that is private, hedonistic, non-historical, and without commitment to social dramas or values such as solidarity. This setting presents challenges to the pastoral praxis of the church. In this sense, the current work, situated in the area of Religious Praxis and Society, has as its objective to analyze how the Methodist pastoral praxis of solidarity presents itself in these times of economic globalization. The research emphasizes that the Methodist church is guided by an Episcopal government, and is organized geographically and politically into eight (08) Ecclesiastical regions. Each Ecclesiastical region has internal subdivisions, called districts. Each local church, district, and region is linked in a connectional form within the Methodist system. Since a study of Methodist pastoral praxis at a national level is impossible, the present research seeks to explore the praxis of solidarity of Methodist pastors in the Ecclesiastical District of Piracicaba. As such, this work utilizes the method of critical historical analysis. The relevance of this research is in demonstrating the interaction between a sector of Brazilian Protestantism and economic globalization, making possible the evaluation of certain changes and/or transformations that this exchange provokes and its implications for the expression of Methodist pastoral praxis solidarity in the contemporary setting. / Assiste-se na contemporaneidade o avanço da globalização econômica, responsável por alguns progressos à humanidade, mas também por profundos problemas sociais, como exemplo, o aumento da multidão de excluídos e miseráveis no mundo. Soma-se a isto, o surgimento na atualidade da religião de mercado, ou seja, uma religião privatizada, hedonista, a-histórica, descomprometida com os dramas sociais ou valores como a solidariedade. Tal cenário apresenta desafios à práxis pastoral da Igreja. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho, situado na área de Práxis Religiosa e Sociedade, tem como objetivo analisar como a práxis pastoral solidária metodista se apresenta nestes tempos de globalização econômica. Salienta-se que a Igreja Metodista é gerida por governo episcopal, organizada geográfica e politicamente em oito (08) Regiões Eclesiásticas. Cada Região Eclesiástica possui uma subdivisão interna, denominada de distrito. Cada igreja local, distrito e região são ligados de forma conexional no sistema metodista. Como um estudo da práxis pastoral metodista em âmbito nacional se mostra inviável, a presente pesquisa propõe investigar as práxis solidárias dos pastores metodistas do Distrito Eclesiástico de Piracicaba. Para tanto, este trabalho utiliza uma metodologia que privilegia o método de análise histórico crítico. A relevância de tal pesquisa está em demonstrar a interação entre um setor do protestantismo brasileiro e a globalização econômica, possibilitando uma avaliação de certas mudanças e/ou transformações que este intercâmbio provoca e suas implicações para a expressão de uma práxis pastoral solidária metodista na contemporaneidade.(AU)