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9780199252671

Managing the Earth The Linacre Lectures 2001

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199252671

  • ISBN10:

    019925267X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-09-26
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Although it is now widely recognized throughout societies around the world that humankind is straining the capacity of our planet, the responses of the many parties who need to come together to solve the myriad challenges have in general been sectoral in their approach. Yet the dangerspresented by drawing successively on Earth's natural resources and exacerbating drought, water scarcity, hunger, health - indeed the viability of whol ecommunities and countries - coupled with the economic and social aspirations of the developed and developing world, clearly call for holistic visionleading to coordinated action.In this book, eight highly experienced authors from acaemia, intergovernmental negotiation, and diplomacy each present their own perspective and assess prospects for progress. the necessity for interdisciplinarity of approach, and for partnership and altruism on an unprecedented scale for solution,and for new negotiation and arbitration frameworks, emerge as inevitalbe conclusions.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors ix
List of Figures
xi
List of Tables
xii
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction 1(4)
James C. Briden
Thomas E. Downing
How Fragile is the Earth System?
5(30)
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
Hermann Held
Risks of Conflict: Resource and Population Pressures
35(12)
Crispin Tickell
Valuing the Earth: Reintegrating the Study of Humans and the Rest of Nature
47(30)
Robert Costanza
Can Technology Save Us from Global Climate Change?
77(24)
Bert Metz
The Role of Corporate Leadership
101(10)
John Browne
Who Governs a Sustainable World? The Role of International Courts and Tribunals
111(18)
Philippe Sands
The Climate Change Regime: Can a Divided World Unite?
129(28)
Joyeeta Gupta
Protecting the Vulnerable: Climate Change and Food Security
157(22)
Thomas E. Downing
Index 179

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