Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2015

GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT: CHALLENGES TO INDIA

Bharath Kumar. K

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Globalization is usually thought of as an economic phenomenon of global movements of capital and trade in goods and services. However there are environmental dimensions of globalization that are equally important both for the future of the life support system of the planet and for their impacts on human society. The globalization of trade puts pressure on natural resources around the world, helping to drive the rapid depletion of tropical forests, the collapse of many ocean fisheries, and even the global impoverishment of biological diversity. The planetary environment is highly diverse, and human responses and adaptations to it need to be similarly diverse. One challenge in a globalizing society is to empower people and institutions everywhere to respond effectively to their local environmental situations while maintaining at the same time a global perspective on their environmental impacts. Generally, globalization ings with it potentially large benefits as well as risks. The challenge is to manage the process of globalization in such a way that it promotes environmental sustainability and equitable human development. In short, the more integrated environmental and trade policies are, the more sustainable economic growth will be and the more globalization can be harnessed for the benefit of the environment, because all dimensions of globalization affect the natural environment and through it human development.

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BHARATH KUMAR.K GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT: CHALLENGES TO INDIA Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 3 March 2015

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