Global Modernization Review: New Discoveries and Theories Revisited

ISBN-13: 9789814616065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 388 str.

Alberto Martinelli; Chuanqi He

Opis

Modernization has been a profound change of human civilizations and a global trend since the 18th century. It includes not only the great change and transformation from traditional to modern politics, economy, society and culture, but also all human development and the rational protection of the natural environment at present. Almost all nations in the world are undergoing some kind of modernization consciously or unconsciously at the moment, and the modernization drive can also be set as a national goal if they will. The first International Modernization Forum: Modernization and Global Change, was held in Beijing in 2013. This book includes the main outcomes of the conference such as modernization announcement: the concluding announcement of the first IMF, four keynote-speeches and about 40 articles, which refer to global modernization, multiple modernities, modernization theory, modernization science, modernization policy, world modernization indexes, and world economy, social change, environment change, regional development and urbanization in the process of global modernization and so on.