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Merve Kovan CIVL Ds f Ins. Deniz Bingöl Research Paper 22-05-2002 Environmental Degradation Environmental degradation is a controversial issue of the last and new centuries. Because human activities increased with the developing technology since the last century, human effects on the environment have increased. Similarly, the consequences of globalization are also results of human activities. For example, Scholte (2000) states that ozone layer depletion, which is an environmental problem, is a global issue and the depletion is caused by human activities. Furthermore, globalization is a significant feature of recent world history which can be characterized as the spread of supra-territorialization according to Scholte (2000). What is meant by supra-territorialization is not that there are no more territories, but decreasing importance of territories in some social spaces (Scholte, 2000). Hence, one can conclude that globalization and environmental degradation simultaneously take place in the world history. As Scholte indicated, globalization is a new phenomenon which emerged with...

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