Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment - Couverture rigide

Speth, James Gustave

 
9780300102321: Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
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ISBN 10 : 0300102321 ISBN 13 : 9780300102321
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth's environment are not succeeding. Still, he says, the challenges are not insurmountable. He offers comprehensive, viable new strategies for dealing with environmental threats around the world. The author explains why current approaches to critical global environmental problems - climate change, biodiversity loss, deterioration of marine environments, deforestation, water shortages, and others - don't work. He offers intriguing insights into why we have been able to address domestic environmental threats with some success while largely failing at the international level. Setting forth eight specific steps to a sustainable future, Speth convincingly argues that dramatically different government and citizen action are now urgent. If ever a book could be described as "essential," this is it.

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À propos de l?auteur

James Gustave Speth is dean and professor in the practice of environmental policy and sustainable development at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University. He founded and was president of the World Resources Institute, co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, served as adviser on environmental issues for Presidents Carter and Clinton, and was chief executive officer of the United Nations Development Programme. For his role in bringing the global warming issue to wide public attention, Speth was recently awarded the prestigious Blue Planet Prize.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300102321
ISBN 13 
9780300102321
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780300107760: Red Sky At Morning: America And The Crisis Of The Global Environment

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300107765 ISBN 13 :  9780300107760
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2005
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