Global issue
Informally, a global issue is any issue that adversely affects the global community and environment, possibly in a catastrophic way. Including but not limited to: environmental issues, political crisis, social issues and economic crisis.
Solutions to global issues often require cooperation among nations.[1]
In their book Global Issues,[2] Hite and Seitz emphasize that global issues are qualitatively different from international affairs and that the former arise from growing international interdependencies which makes the issues themselves interdependent.[3] It is speculated that our global interconnectedness, instead of (only) making us more resilient, makes us more vulnerable to global catastrophe.[4]
UN list
The UN has listed issues that it deems to be the most pressing as of 2015:[5]
World Economic Forum list / economic issues
In keeping with their economy-centered view, the World Economic Forum formulated a list of 10 most pressing points in 2016: [7]
- Food security
- Inclusive growth
- Future of work/unemployment
- Climate change
- Global financial crisis
- Future of the internet/Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Gender equality
- Global trade and investment and regulatory frameworks
- Long-term investment/Investment strategy
- Future healthcare
Environmental issues
Theories like the world-system theory and the Gaia hypothesis focus on the inter-dependency aspect of environmental and economic issues. Among the most evident environmental problems are:[8][9][10][11]
- overpopulation
- resource depletion
- pollution
- water pollution
- waste and waste disposal
- ocean acidification
- acid rain
- ozone layer depletion
- global warming/climate change
- loss of biodiversity and habitat loss
- deforestation
- urban sprawl
No single issue can be analysed or treate isolated from the others.[12] For example, habitat loss and climate change adversely affect biodiversity. Deforestation and pollution are direct consequences of overpopulation and both, in turn, affect biodiversity. While overpopulation locally leads to rural flight, this is more than counterbalanced by accelerating urbanization and urban sprawl.
See also
- Center for Global Food Issues
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Climate change
- Cybersecurity
- Developing country
- Earth Economics
- Earth system science
- Ecological footprint
- Energy crisis
- Environmental social science
- Financial crisis
- Global catastrophic risk
- Global Challenges Foundation
- Global change
- Global governance
- Global health
- Global justice
- Global Rights
- Global warming controversy
- Human impact on the environment
- Human security
- Intergovernmental organization
- List of United Nations peacekeeping missions
- Liu Institute for Global Issues
- Mass surveillance
- Ozone depletion and climate change
- Pandemic
- Peak oil
- Social justice
- Species extinction
- Washington consensus
- World Community Grid
- World-systems theory
- World War
References
- ↑ Bhargava, Vinay (2006). Global issues for global citizens : an introduction to key development challenges (PDF). Washington, D.C.: World Bank. ISBN 9780821367315. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ Global Issues
- ↑ "Global Issues (2012), Foreword"
- ↑ Hotchkiss, Michael (2014-12-01). "A Risky Proposition: Has global interdependence made us vulnerable?". Princeton University. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ↑ "Global Issues Overview". United Nations. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ↑ "Global Education First Initiative - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization".
- ↑ Hutt, Rosamond; Content, Formative (2016-01-21). "What are the 10 biggest global challenges?". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ↑ Rinkesh (27 June 2014). "15 Current Environmental Problems That Our World is Facing - Conserve Energy Future".
- ↑ "The World's 6 Most Pressing Environmental Issues".
- ↑ "NRDC - Our Work".
- ↑ "Environmental Issues — Global Issues".
- ↑ http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/issues/global/major-global-issues-diagram-lg.jpg
Literature
- John L. Seitz, Kristen A. Hite (2012). Global Issues (4 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-65564-1.
- Richard J. Payne (2012). Global Issues (4th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-0205854592.
- Michael T. Snarr, D. Neil Snarr, ed. (2012). Introducing Global Issues (5th ed.). Lynne Rienner Pub. ISBN 978-1588268457.
- Shirley A. Fedorak (2013). Global Issues: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Paperback. ISBN 978-1442605961.
- Global Education Magazine
- Global Environmental Politics
External links
- "Think Global: Learn More About Global Issues". dus.psu.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
- "Global issues". TED.com. 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- "Global Issues". TakingITGlobal. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- "Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all". Global Issues. 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- "Global Issues Network". Global Issues Network. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- "Issues of resilience, interdependence and growth affect global climate change risk". Carbon Brief. 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- "A list of the most urgent global issues". 80,000 Hours. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2018-06-06.