Progress for a Small Planet

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-84922-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: Sustainable Development Set

Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty.

In this exceptional book Barbara Ward (co-author with Rene Dubos of the bestselling Only One Earth) refused to see these processes as inevitable. It describes new technologies for recycling waste, for energy, forgetting more or less linking them to ordinary people's working lives. It also suggests a strategy for meeting the basic needs of the disadvantaged, and shows how the vast inequalities between countries can be reduced.

This perceptive survey of policies outlines a planetary bargain between the world's nations that would guarantee individual freedom from poverty and keep our shared biosphere in good working order.

Originally published in 1988

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by David Satterthwaite, IIED
Foreword by Mostafa K. Tolba, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

Author's Note

Prologue

Part One: New Directions for the Industrial Order
1. Energy: How Big Is The Gap?

2. The Nuclear Option

3. Energy Alternatives

4. Saving Fuel

5. The Recycling Revolution

6. Industry: Rewards and Risks

7. A Role for the Citizen?

8. Waters and Wastes

9. Fuel for Food

10. Safer Diets, Wiser Means

11. Farming for Tomorrow

12. The Launching Pad

13. Back to Full Employment?

14. Toward 'Private Socialism'

15. Cities: Survival or Else?

Part Two: Priorities for Development
16. A Time for Choice?

17. 'The Land to the Tiller'

18. Fuel for Basic Needs

19. Water and Food Supplies

20. 'Walking on Two Legs'

21. Taming the Cities

Part Three: A Conserving Planet?
22. An Emerging World Community?

23. The Cost of Justice

24. How New an Order?

25. The Final Constraints

Appendices

A. Glossary

B. Aid and Development Statistics

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Ward