8.2.2 Global Challenges

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General information	Population geography	Cultural integration
Political geography	Development geography	Natural resource use

Global Issues of the Twenty-First Century - United Nations Challenges from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
http://www.global-challenges.org/

Millers Point - Issues and Challenges from Observatory Hill Environmental Education Centre
http://www.observhill-e.schools.nsw.edu.au/mp.html

The state of world population 2001 from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm

Migration and urbanization from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
http://www.unfpa.org/modules/6billion/populationissues/migration.htm

The world factbook 2001 from the CIA
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

World Population Information from the U.S. Census Bureau
http://blue.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au

Advertising and the Rise of the Consumer Culture from Critical Mass: webzine of social and politcal issues
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/cmass/issue2/ads.html

What is consumer culture, and what is its connection with 'postmodernism'? from Sheffield Hallam University
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/jb2/ch_sem09.htm

The Invisible Doors Between Cultures from Northern Arizona University
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL_23.html

The Riddle of Ramadan: Media, Consumer Culture and the 'Christmas-ization' of a Muslim Holiday from Georgetown University
http://nmit.georgetown.edu/papers/warmbrust.htm

Culture Vultures: Fashion junkies abound in mainstream America from The Sonoma County Independent
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/09.21.00/fashion-0038.html

Transnational Corporations: Statement of the Problem from the Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/transcorp.asp

Québec’s Policy with Respect to Cultural Diversity, Social Integration and Equality from the Minister of Education, Québec
http://www.meq.gouv.qc.ca/REFORME/religion/html-ang/abr-ang/text/chapt2-III.htm

The Global Economy and the Nation-State from Council on Foreign Relations Inc.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/drucker.htm

The Nation-State
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/nation_state_resources.htm

The Role of the Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/nation_state_readings.htm

Resisting the Nation State - the pacifist and anarchist tradition
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/dd-trad1.html

Consumer Protection, the Nation-State, Law, Globalization, and Democracy
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue2/goldring.html

The nation state, one player among many?
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/DOSSIER/2000/05etat.html

Challenges to the Nation-State from Above
http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/challanges/global.htm
and
Challenges to the Nation-State from Below
http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/challanges/domestic.htm

International Governance Office from the Government of Alberta, Canada
http://www.iir.gov.ab.ca/inter_rel/pages/governance.htm

Non-Government Organizations
http://ncf.davintech.ca/freeport/orgs/menu

Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) - Australian
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/208.html

Global Interdependence and National Sovereignty
http://www.asiawide.or.jp/iac/meetings/Eng90sovereignty.htm

Security in a shrinking world - see, in particular, Unbreakable links
http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/124/noor.html

The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact
http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0112.shtml

Plan of Action - Migration
http://www.drk.de/regionalkonferenz/migration.pdf

Causes and Consequences of Migration
http://pieria.acs.southwestern.edu/econ/migration/

Millennium Development Goals from the World Bank Group
http://www.developmentgoals.org

A Working Set of Indicators of Development Progress
http://www1.oecd.org/dac/Indicators/index.htm

Race/Ethnicity from the UK Civil Service
http://www.diversity-whatworks.gov.uk/race/background.asp
and
Gender from the UK Civil Service
http://www.diversity-whatworks.gov.uk/race/policy.asp

Urban Spatial Development patterns: Economic and Non-economic Explanation
http://taz.tamu.edu/LAUP/faculty/chengri/publica/spatial/spaurban.html

Towards a spatial analysis framework: modeling urban development patterns
http://www.geocomputation.org/2001/papers/cheng.pdf

Gender Equity from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlsea/equity/sxeqintro.html

Diversity and equity from the Canadian Centre on Minority Affairs
http://www.ccmacanada.org/ccma/diversity_equity/default.htm

Social justice issues - equity of access
http://legacy.eos.ncsu.edu/eos/info/computer_ethics/social/equity/

Gender equity resources
http://www.aauw.org/1000/geneqrsc.html

Ecologically sustainable development from Environment Australia
http://www.ea.gov.au/esd/

Ecologically sustainable development from the NSW Environment Protection Authority
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/97/intro/5.htm

Ecologically sustainable development or sustainable development from The Australian Acadamy of Technological Science and Engineering
http://www.atse.org.au/publications/focus/focus-fitzpatrick2.htm

Sustainable development and social equity
http://www.bayareaalliance.org/equity.html

Poverty and social equity from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
http://www.unescap.org/sdd/theme2002/ch2.htm

Our Work in Focus from the Natural Resource Institute
http://www.nri.org/work.htm

Land tenure from Geoscience Australia
http://www.auslig.gov.au/facts/tenure.htm

Natural resources from Macquarie University
http://www.es.mq.edu.au/hsc/nat_res/lecoh.htm

Case Studies from the Australian Mekong Resource Centre
http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/case_studies/index.htm

Classroom Antartica: Protecting the environment from the Australian Antarctic Division
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?content=dynamic&title=Classroom+Antarctica&casid=56&docid=1&type=3&children=57

Assigning Economic Value to Conservation
http://www.progress.org/forest.htm

United Nations index to economic and social development - natural resources from the United Nations
http://www.un.org/esa/subindex/qd.htm

The political economy of natural resources-based conflict in Sudan
http://www.ossrea.net/announcements/sara.pdf

Projects for ecologically sustainable development from the NSW Biodiversity Strategy
http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/wildlife/biodiversity/strategy/management.html

Natural resource management from the Murray Darling Basin Commission
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/naturalresources/planning/bsp.htm

Conflict over natural resources
http://www.idrc.ca/reports/photoreps/read_ph_report.cfm?rep_id=4&pphot_id=1

Managing natural resources - Africa and the Middle East from the International Development Research Centre
http://network.idrc.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=3313&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201

Enhancing indigenous traditional knowledge as a basis for sustainable development from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/html_eng/develop.shtml

Ecologically sustainable development and Indigenous people in Australia from Northern Exposure
http://learnline.ntu.edu.au/commonunits/CUC104/s_guide/ecological.html

Ecologically Sustainable Development from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
http://www.fisheries-esd.com/c/implement/implement0200.cfm

Natural Resources, Forests and Agriculture from the Australian Greenhouse Office
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/naturalresources.html

Implementation of ecologically sustainable development by commonwealth departments and agencies from the Productivity Commission
http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiry/esd/finalreport/

Ecologically sustainable development from Environment Australia
http://www.ea.gov.au/esd/

Ecologically sustainable development from the NSW Environment Protection Authority
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/97/intro/5.htm

Our Work in Focus from the Natural Resource Institute
http://www.nri.org/work.htm

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