3 Globalization, networks, and contagion
Learning objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
- LO1 Explain why systems of interconnection cause diseases to spread.
- LO2 Analyze the process of globalization, the widening and deepening interconnections among the world’s peoples through all forms of exchange.
- LO3 Describe the characteristics of networks.
- LO4 Discuss network applications, including disease, energy, supply chains, and innovation.
- LO5 Explain how contagion, the spread of crisis from one area to another, may occur.
Chapter outline
- Systems of interconnection
- Globalization
- Networks
- Network applications
- Contagion
- Summary
Systems of interconnection
Through networks—systems of interconnection—disease outbreaks ...
