The things that threaten our security (climate change, food shortages, storms and floods, war, want and forced migration, etc) call for global solidarity, not fragmentation.
Extinction occurs when species are diminished because of environmental forces (habitat fragmentation, global change, overexploitation of species for human use) or because of evolutionary changes in their members (genetic inbreeding, poor reproduction, decline in population numbers).
While the broadcasters may eventually benefit from supplying targeted advertising on a mass market scale, we see greater risks from continued viewer fragmentation, global competitors entering traditionally national markets, and even a longer term risk of disintermediation [or, cutting out the middleman].
In contrast, global dispersal eliminated fragmentation effects through random establishment.
On a global scale, rangeland fragmentation has emerged as one of the components of climate change (Hobbs et al. 2008).
Several tools have been developed to evaluate global patterns of fragmentation, which have potential applications for REDD+.
"They should analyse the intended and unintended risks and side-effects of their activities, particularly the fragmentation of global governance, the weakening of representative democracy … the prevailing practice of applying business logic to the provision of public goods".
He darkly warned that if the Fed did not back down and accept that Europe will do a perfectly good job of regulating its own banks, the new rules "could spark a protectionist reaction" from other countries and bring on "a fragmentation of global banking markets and regulatory frameworks".
Anthropogenic disturbance such as agricultural expansion has resulted in dramatic global habitat loss and fragmentation.
Evaluation of mitochondrial morphology with confocal and electron microscopy revealed a similar induction of fragmentation following global brain ischemia.
