This book is at the intersection of global science, sustainable political and social and economic orders, and the vulnerability of the nation-state in the face of growing complexity for some time, as well as the literatures of collective intelligence, global assemblages, wealth of networks, localized resilience, and so on.
Pharmaceuticals production, distribution, retail and prescription processes are part of complex global assemblages, and so issues of trust permeate not just local and national settings, but also must be understood in their global contexts.
But there is a lacuna in this literature, relating to the need to consider the fact that, increasingly, disembedded systems cross national boundaries and resemble global assemblages 'through which global forms of techno-science, economic rationalism, and other expert systems gain significance' [[ 14]: 3].
Whilst blood has become an established medium of a commonality put to work in the defence of the nation, this can be seen to collide with a far more internationalised 'haemato-global assemblage' (Ong and Collier 2005; Simpson 2014).
The potent and symbolically loaded ideas of local communities, condensed within blood and the act of blood donations, do not always align with the global policy recommendations and the 'haemato-global assemblages' (Simpson 2009) regarding the collection, storage and use of donated blood.
Local belief systems in Pakistan, such as notions of caste-based purity of blood and that donors and recipients get symbolically knitted in a kin relationship, do not align well with the anonymity inherent in the haemato-global assemblages regarding the collection storage and use of blood.
Under global warming species assemblages are expected to shift upwards in altitude, whereby lowland species will be important to sustain natural forests at mid-altitudes (Colwell et al. 2008; Feeley and Silman 2010).
Actual cause-consequences relationships between environmental (anthropogenic or natural) drivers and rocky shore assemblages at global scales are further complicated due to the inherent complexity of spatial and temporal variation in which these assemblages naturally fluctuate [89].
These findings not only highlight the importance of dispersers for building and maintaining forest seedbanks, but suggest another mechanism by which current global declines in vertebrate assemblages could have important implications for forest persistence.
The climate of Africa has been affected by oscillations in global temperature and species assemblages in tropical Africa are often influenced by these changes, particularly the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) [ 25].
