世界地理简介英版.pptVIP

World geography Chapter 1 Globalization and World Regions Different and similar world If you compared places, you would find… what the different is. what the common is. People Food Landscape Different and Changing Worlds Political, economic, and social experience and expectations are rapidly change nowadays. The physical shape of world isn’t change. But connecting among people bring places closer as cooperation, competition, and conflict with other peoples become more intense. 9/11 9/11 4 geographic levels to see Earth Global views from spacecraft show the contrasts between continental land areas and ocean waters. Major World regions are whole or large parts of continents and are the division used in this text for the regional chapters. Countries are the building blocks of major world regions. Local regions are parts of countries and the places where many individuals voice their concerns. Globalization vs. Localization Globalization Globalization is increasing level of interconnections among people throughout the world. The speed and intensity of globalization, in terms of world trade and the flow of financial investments, increased markedly in the 1990s. Globalization vs. Localization Localization is both response to and the outcome of globalization. On the one hand, global exchanges and flows of information, ideas, people, money, and technology move us toward worldwide political solutions, economic exchanges, cultural attitudes, and environmental concerns. On the other, localization focuses on distinctive identities of places or people in regions, countries, or local areas. Facets of Globalization Increasing connections take place through intensified flows of ideas, goods, and people: Ideas, technologies, and diseases; Goods from many place of manufacture; People migrations for work, political asylum, family consolidation, and long-distance tourism; The spread of images and message through the media of TV, film, the Internet and print. Facets of Localizatio