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Lecturer(s)
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Smutná Zdeňka, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Matějček Tomáš, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Focus of lectures: 1. Global issues, globalist, geopolitics. 2. Atmospheric pollution. Global climate change. 3. Threats to the land and soil. Threats to biodiversity. 4. Deforestation. Biological invasions. 5. Waste production. 6. Water problem. 7. The problem of war. International organized crime. International terrorism. 8. The demographic problem. Ethnic and confessional problems. 9. Drug trafficking. HIV/AIDS. 10. Nutrition problem - famines and food waste. 11. The energy and resource problem. 12. Uneven development - contrasts in the contemporary world. 13. 'Anti-globalism', de-growth and other alternative movements.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Recommended literature
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Gereffi, G. (1994). The organization of buyer-driven global commodity chains: How US retailers shape overseas production networks. Commodity chains and global capitalism, 95-122..
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Huntington, S. P. (2020). The clash of civilizations?. In The new social theory reader (pp. 305-313). Routledge..
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Kolb, M. (2018). What is globalization? And how has the global economy shaped the United States. Peterson Institute for International Economics. https://www. piie. com/microsites/globalization/what-is-globalization..
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Sklair, L. (2002). Capitalism and its alternatives (Vol. 65). Oxford: Oxford university press..
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