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Defining globalization: interdependence, power, and scholarly debate

There are differing views, for example, whether the definition should include a merely passive understanding or should include the fact that these processes are to some extent driven by actors specifically seeking to increase the interdependence between nations.

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Essay Undergraduate 738 words

Universal Health Coverage: WHO's Global Access Initiative

Explores the WHO's universal health coverage initiative, its three dimensions of access, single-payer comparisons, and global benefits of expanding healthcare systems.

Health

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Essay Undergraduate 628 words

Future of Intergovernmental Management in the US

Explores IGM/IGR challenges in the US, including barriers to collaboration, strategies for reform, and institutional capacity-building across government levels.

Government

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Essay Undergraduate 639 words

Fall of the Roman Empire: Social Complexity Theory

Explores Joseph Tainter's social complexity theory as the strongest explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.

History

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Essay Undergraduate 969 words

Valeo's Sustainability Strategies in the Automotive Industry

Explores how Valeo applies Natural Capitalism, biomimicry, and the Triple Bottom Line to reduce emissions and advance environmental sustainability in auto manufacturing.

Environment

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679 words

Sustainability as an integrated framework for business, environment, and society

Across the globe there continues to be a crescendo in the discussion by political and business leaders, academics, the science community, and ordinary citizens regarding the notion of sustainability.

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Debating global warming: natural cycles versus human causes

As a scientific concept, global warming has both proponents and disbelievers. The evidence, which can often be construed one way or another, points to the fact that pollutants have a negative impact on the environment, and that these pollutants have begun to cause a massive global weather shift.

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Corporate ethics codes and competitive lobbying practices

Would it be unethical for company "X" that has just constructed a new plant with pollution-emission restrictors to lobby the government for stricter anti-pollution laws that could affect company "X's" competition by forcing the competition to spend capital on upgrades?

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Sustainability classifications in engineering: discipline and approach

Sustainability classifications in engineering: discipline and approach," the author sifts through the plethora of definitions, theories, and political viewpoints in relation to the concept of sustainability.

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758 words

Political gridlock and denial delaying action on global warming

Despite the overwhelming evidence in support of the idea that global warming is a very real phenomenon, the political inconvenience of the hard steps needed to circumvent it, such as limiting fossil fuel and meat consumption, makes the issue politically unpopular.

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