Is the global environment a global issue or a national one?
It is both. Countries have to take responsibility for their own actions, and this means that American companies should not allow harmful waste to be put in the ocean just because their factory happens to be in Bangladesh. At some point, each individual decision will affect everyone, globally.
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Geography and History
- What is self reference criterion (SRC)?
- What are Hofstede's cultural dimensions?
- Why are the 1990s called the "Decade of the Environment"?
- Do world trade routes bind the world together?
- How do differences in people constitute bases for trade?
- Explain why the basis of world trade can be simply stated as the result of equalizing an imbalance in the needs and wants of society on one hand and its supply of goods on the other.
- What are the marketing implications of rapidly growing vs stable population?
- How does the shift from rural to urban areas affect international marketing?
- What does it mean to examine the more complex effect on geography on general market characteristics, distribution systems and the state of the economy?
- Why study geography in international marketing?
- What are the long-term prospects for industrialization of an underdeveloped country with high population growth and minimum resources?