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Toakley, Arthur Raymond – Higher Education Policy, 2004
Globalization is a natural outcome of the sustained technological and economic growth, which originated with the Industrial Revolution in Britain during the 18th century. This path to continuing economic growth spread initially to continental Europe and North America, and brought with it the creation of large towns and substantial social change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Physical Environment, Sustainable Development