Patterns and Change
Author: Paul Guinness
Contents
Introduction;
Section 1. Populations in Transition:
1. Population changes; 2. Responses to high and low fertility; 3. Movement responses: migration; 4. Gender and change;
Section 2. Disparities in Wealth and Development:
5. Measurements of regional and global disparities; 6. Origins of disparities; 7. Disparities and change; 8. Reducing disparities;
Section 3. Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability:
8. Atmosphere and change; 9. Soil and change; 10. Water and change; 11. Biodiversity and change; 12. Sustainability and the environment;
Section 4. Patterns in Resource Consumption:
13. Patterns of resource consumption; 14. Changing patterns of energy consumption; 15. The changing importance of other energy sources; 16. Conservation strategies;
Index;
Acknowledgements.

Global Interactions
Author: Paul Guinness
Contents
Introduction;
Section 1. Measuring Global Interactions:
1. Global participation; 2. Global core and periphery;
Section 2. Changing Space: the Shrinking World:
3. Time–space convergence and the reduction in the friction of distance; 4. Extension and density of networks;
Section 3. Economic Interactions and Flows:
5. Financial flows; 6. Labour flows; 7. Information flows;
Section 4. Environmental Change;
8. Degradation through raw material production; 9. The effects of transnational manufacturing and services; 10. Transboundary pollution; 11. Homogenisation of landscapes;
Section 5. Sociolcultural Exchanges;
12. Cultural diffusion: the process; 13. Consumerism and culture; 14. Sociocultural integration; Section 6. Political Outcomes; 15. Loss of sovereignty; 16. Responses;
Section 7. Global Interactions at the Local Level:
17. Globalisation and the adoption of globalisation; 18. Local responses to globalisation; 19. Alternatives;
Index;
Acknowledgements