Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio]20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn't. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the challenges that we face twenty years from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," in Rio, in particular in the areas of economics and governance and the role of stakeholders....
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio]20...
This title identifies and tackles the double threat to global security, peace and development. It offers insights from high profile authors including Nicholas Stern, Andrew Simms, Stavros Dimas and Elizabeth Dowdeswell.
This title identifies and tackles the double threat to global security, peace and development. It offers insights from high profile authors including ...
Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and when coupled with energy production and use - the most significant contributor to climate change - and the related security problems the double threat to international security and human development is of the highest order.
This wide-ranging book brings together leading thinkers from academia, government and civil society to examine and address the global insecurity and development challenges arising from the twin thrust of climate change and the energy supply crunch.
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Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and when coupled with energy production and u...
Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy. Added to this is the growing threat of climate change which will have huge impacts on water and food availability. It is increasingly clear that there is no place in an interlinked world for isolated solutions aimed at just one sector. In recent years the "nexus" has emerged as a powerful concept to capture these inter-linkages of resources and is now a key feature of policy-making.
This book is one of the first to provide a broad...
Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and...
Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy. Added to this is the growing threat of climate change which will have huge impacts on water and food availability. It is increasingly clear that there is no place in an interlinked world for isolated solutions aimed at just one sector. In recent years the "nexus" has emerged as a powerful concept to capture these inter-linkages of resources and is now a key feature of policy-making.
This book is one of the first to provide a broad...
Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and...
