Red sky at morning America and the crisis of the global environment
"Explains why current approaches to global environmental problems ... don't work now and won't work in the future ... Argues that dramatically different and far-reaching actions by citizens and governments are now urgent"--jacket.
| Main Author: | Speth, James Gustave. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: 1980
- pt. 1. Environmental challenges go global
- A world of wounds
- Lost in Eden
- Pollution and climate change in a full world
- pt. 2. And the world responds
- First attempt at global environmental governance
- Anatomy of failure
- pt. 3. Facing up to underlying causes
- Ten drivers of environmental deterioration
- Globalization and the environment
- pt. 4. The transition to sustainability
- Attacking the root causes
- Taking "good governance" seriously
- The most fundamental transition of all
- Resources for citizens.