A world regional framework is used to highlight the distinct human-environmental relationships found across the surface of the Earth while at the same time exploring how globalization is effecting these patterns.
Globalization is far from a homogenizing force.
The impact of cultural, political and economic globalization plays out differently in distinct localities. By taking a regional framework, this course will explore the tensions between the global and the local. The course will also examine the origins of regional groupings and their relevance for an increasingly globalized world economy. By the end of this course, a student should understand the basic environmental, social, economic and geopolitical conditions facing the regions of the world and how they relate to the forces of globalization. World Regions, Environment and Development .