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xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index. |
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Part one: It's not globalization, stupid. Two big forces [Stretching the planet to the limit : the demographic explosion [Doing everything differently : the new world economy and the two revolutions behind it [Why the new world economy is so radically different [The opportunities and stresses of the new world economy [A crisis of complexity? [Three new realities -- Part two: High noon--for twenty urgent global issues. A dangerous gap [A bad feeling in your stomach : unsolved global issues [Twenty global issues, twenty years to solve them [Inherently global issues [Sharing our planet : issues involving the global commons [Sharing our humanity : issues requiring a global commitment [Sharing our rule book : issues needing a global regulatory approach -- Part three: Thinking aloud--new approaches to global problem-solving. No pilot in the cockpit [Current ways of handling global issues aren't up to the job [No chance for a world government [Pointers towards solutions : networked governance [Global issues networks [Good things about global issues networks [Controversial aspects [Stepping back : other solutions besides global issues networks [Conclusion : imagination and a different type of thinking. |
| Summary |
J.F. Rischard, vice-president for Europe of the World Bank, offers his suggestions for solving twenty of the most urgent global problems of the 21st-century. |
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In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits? Here, World Bank economist J.F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the problems of the twenty-first century. Defining and then offering a brief overview of the twenty most important and urgent global problems, Rischard finds that they all have two things in common: they're getting worse, not better, and the standard strategies for dealing with them are woefully inadequate to the task. The real problem, in other words, is that in our increasingly crowded, interconnected world, we don't have an effective way of addressing the problems such a world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past. Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that would be acknowledged by governments but that would function as extra-governmental bodies devoted to particular problems. Their powers would not be legal but normative: they would produce globally recognized standards and would single out the nations and organizations that were not cooperating. No previous book has presented such a unified appraisal of this century's global problems, or offered such a consistent and well-defined approach to solving them. This is an agenda-setting book that everyone who cares about the future must read.--Adapted from dust jacket. |
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Environmental degradation.
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Global environmental change.
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Environmental protection.
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43.30 environmental and nature policy: general.
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71.79 social problems and social conflicts: other.
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Environmental degradation. (OCoLC)fst00912877
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Environmental protection. (OCoLC)fst00913324
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Global environmental change. (OCoLC)fst00943478
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Bewältigung (DE-588)4195461-0
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Internationale Kooperation (DE-588)4120503-0
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Weltwirtschaftskrise (DE-588)4065471-0
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Sociale problemen.
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Milieuverontreiniging.
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Internationale aspecten.
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43.30 environmental and nature policy: general.
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71.79 social problems and social conflicts: other.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Rischard, J.F. High noon. New York : Basic Books, ©2002 (OCoLC)606803646 |
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Online version: Rischard, J.F. High noon. New York : Basic Books, ©2002 (OCoLC)607644843 |
| ISBN |
0465070094 (alk. paper) |
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9780465070091 (alk. paper) |
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9780465070107 |
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0465070108 |
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