Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781844076123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str.

Girardet, Herbert

Opis

'Surviving the Century' is a positive, solutions-oriented text that tackles the biggest issues: climate change, energy, production systems, rainforests and the fate of the Amazon, cities, food production, democracy and trade.

Spis treści

Foreword by Jakob von xkuell * Introduction: Future - What Future? * Addressing Climate Chaos * Renewable Energy is the Future * Feeding People in an Age of Climate Change * Climate and the Amazon * Creating Sustainable and Liveable Cities * Cradle to Cradle Production * A Radical New Vision for World Trade * The Promise of Living Democracy * Index

O autorze

Herbert Girardet is Director of Programs of the WFC (www.worldfuturecouncil.org). He is an author and co-author of 11 books and 50 TV documentaries on many aspects of sustainable development. At the Rio Earth Summit he received a UN Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievements. His most recent books are Cities, People, Planet - Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World (2004) and Shaping our Future (2005).