High noon : twenty global problems, twenty years to solve them / J.F. Rischard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rischard, J. F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental degradation.

Global environmental change.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2002]

Summary:

In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits? In High Noon, J. F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread: we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past. Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive. With its clear-eyed urgency and refreshing specificity, High Noon is an agenda-setting book that everyone who cares about the future must read.

Contents:

Part 1 It's Not Globalization, Stupid 1

1 Two Big Forces 3

2 Stretching the Planet to the Limit: The Demographic Explosion 5

3 Doing Everything Differently: The New World Economy and the Two Revolutions Behind It 11

4 Why the New World Economy Is So Radically Different 17

5 The Opportunities and Stresses of the New World Economy 25

6 A Crisis of Complexity? 37

7 Three New Realities 41

Part 2 High Noon

for Twenty Urgent Global Issues 53

8 A Dangerous Gap 55

9 A Bad Feeling in Your Stomach: Unsolved Global Issues 59

10 Twenty Global Issues, Twenty Years to Solve Them 61

11 Inherently Global Issues 65

12 Sharing Our Planet: Issues Involving the Global Commons 69

13 Sharing Our Humanity: Issues Requiring a Global Commitment 89

14 Sharing Our Rule Book: Issues Needing a Global Regulatory Approach 113

Part 3 Thinking Aloud

New Approaches to Global Problem-Solving 151

15 No Pilot in the Cockpit 153

16 Current Ways of Handling Global Issues Aren't Up to the Job 157

17 No Chance for a World Government 165

18 Pointers Towards Solutions: Networked Governance 169

19 Global Issues Networks 171

20 Good Things About Global Issues Networks 181

21 Controversial Aspects 187

22 Stepping Back: Other Solutions Besides Global Issues Networks 193

23 Conclusion: Imagination and a Different Type of Thinking 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.

ISBN:

0465070094

OCLC:

49285424