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State of the world 2005 : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society / Lori Brown, Alexander Carius, Richard Cincotta,… [et al.] ; Michael Renner, Hilary French, and Erik Assadourian, project directors ; Linda Starke, editor

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • State of the world 2005 : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society / Lori Brown, Alexander Carius, Richard Cincotta,… [et al.] ; Michael Renner, Hilary French, and Erik Assadourian, project directors ; Linda Starke, editor
Autre(s) responsabilité(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • New York : W.W. Norton, 2005
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XXVII-237 p.) : ill., carte, graph., tabl. ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 0-393-06020-9
  • 978-0-393-06020-1
  • 0-393-32666-7
  • 978-0-393-32666-6
Titre de couverture
  • [State of the world 2005, redefining global security.]
  • [Redefining global security.]
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 363.702
  • 327.116
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Foreword / Mikhail S. Gorbachev State of the World, a year in review / Lori Brown Security redefined / Michael Renner Examining the connections between population and security / Lisa Mastny, Richard P. Cincotta Containing infectious disease / Dennis Pirages Cultivating food security / Danielle Nierenberg, Brian Halweil Managing water conflict and cooperation / Aaron T. Wolf ... [et al.] Changing the oil economy / Tom Prugh, Christopher Flavin, and Janet L. Sawin Disarming postwar societies / Michael Renner Building peace through environmental cooperation / Ken Conca, Alexander Carius, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko Laying the foundations for peace / Hilary French, Gary Gardner, and Erik Assadourian
Résumé ou extrait
  • Security concerns remain high on the world's agenda. In this year's annual report, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over oil and other resources. Find out [in this book] why terrorism is just symptomatic of a far broader set of complex problems that require more than a military response. This work presents a collection of essays that examine the global security environment in 2005, and posit an argument that a key component in lasting safety lies with policy changes such as moving away from dependence on oil, managing water conflicts, containing infectious diseases, and moving toward global disarmanment
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