| Description |
xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 |
"In High Noon, 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index |
| Subject |
Environmental degradation.
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Global environmental change.
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Environmental protection.
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| Author |
Rischard, J. F.
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| LC no. |
2002003520 |
| ISBN |
0465070094 alkaline paper |
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0465070108 paperback |
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