Making Peace with the Earth

What Future for the Human Species and the Planet
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-498-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

The current world situation is fraught with potential future conflicts and calls for global responses. The point needs to be made yet again that sustainable development concerns us all and is a vital prerequisite for effectively combating poverty, since it is the poorest individuals that are most affected by drought and other natural catastrophes looming over the planet. Today, though, we understand that our war on nature is a world war…As part of the current reform of the United Nations system, a wide-ranging debate has now begun concerning the governance of the environment at a world-wide level and the need for better coordination of everybody’s efforts. [from the Preface] Unesco is actively involved in the debate as reflected in this volume that outlines some of the fundamental themes outlined here by prominent thinkers and offered as a forum for discussion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bindé, Jérôme

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Let us make peace with the Earth

Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO

Introduction

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Former Secretary-General of United Nations

PART I: ARE THERE LIMITS TO GROWTH? POPULATION, RESOURCES, ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 1. How and when will we experience limits to growth?

Dennis Meadows

Chapter 2. Dematerialization and sustainable development

Mostafa Tolba

Chapter 3. What limits and what kind of development?

Dominique Voynet

PART II: WATER FOR ALL?

Chapter 4. Quo Vadis world of water?

Asit K. Biswas

Chapter 5. What will be the impact of climatic change on water availability?

Syukuro Manabe

Chapter 6. Which crises in the 21st century?

Jean Margat

PART III: BIODIVERSITY IN PERIL

Chapter 7. Why should we care about biodiversity? The meeting of ecology and ethics

Michel Loreau

Chapter 8. The state of global biodiversity

Edward O. Wilson

PART IV: SAVING THE PLANET: CONSUME LESS TO LIVE BETTER?

Chapter 9. Can we afford to reduce our ecological footprint?

Mathis Wackernagel

Chapter 10. Will we be able to reduce superfluous consumption?

Haroldo Mattos de Lemos

Chapter 11. An ecological pact: joining forces to place ecology at the centre of public debate

Nicolas Hulot

PART V: A NEW ETHIC OF RESPONSIBILITY: TOWARDS A NATURAL CONTRACT?

Chapter 12. Atmospheric chemistry and climate in the Anthropocene

Paul J. Crutzen

Chapter 13. Let the Earth be whole

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Chapter 14. A return to the natural contract

Michel Serres

Conclusion

Jérôme Bindé

Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bindé, Jérôme
Jérôme Bindé is Director of the Office of Foresight at UNESCO and produces the series of the ‘Twenty-first Century Talks’. He is the editor of its first two anthologies Keys to the 21st Century (2000) and The Future of Values (2004). He is also principal co-author of the World Foresight Report The World Ahead: Our Future in the Making (2001), and director of the UNESCO World Report Towards Knowledge Societies (2005).