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Globalization, Universities and Issues of Sustainable Human Development (Hardcover)
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Globalization, Universities and Issues of Sustainable Human Development (Hardcover)
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This volume raises an important question: Given the fast-changing
global economy and the challenges it presents, what is the role for
the university as an institution promoting sustainable human
development? The editors begin by outlining the changes associated
with the recent wave of globalization, particularly transformations
in the relative power of institutions internationally. They analyze
the constraints universities face in industrialized and developing
countries in promoting sustainable human development. The authors
in Part I point out the need for the university to take a role in
meeting the challenges of globalization so they examine the effects
of the increased market focus of the world economy on several types
of nations - low-income (Jamaica), transitional (Slovenia),
peripheral to industrialized nations (Ireland) - and on women, a
typically disadvantaged group. Contributors to the second half of
the volume provide a variety of perspectives and concrete examples
that highlight the roles universities can play in fostering
development beneficial to communities and nations. Promising
initiatives in Malaysia and India and at a university in the United
States are discussed as well as the general lessons each offers.
Collectively, the authors suggest that, as an institution, the
university can and should play an important role in promoting
sustainable human development. Readers interested in economic
development, regional studies, globalization and community
development will find this book a unique and important
contribution.
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