Green alternatives to globalisation : a manifesto / Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodin, Michael.

Contributor:

Lucas, Caroline, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Economic development.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xxii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Green alternatives to globalization

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004.

Summary:

Written by two of the most prominent UK members of the Green Party, with a foreword by Mike Feinstein (Green Mayor of Santa Monica, California), this book is an accessible and concise statement of the Green alternatives to economic globalisation. Arguing that globalisation increases poverty, undermines democracy, and destroys the environment, the authors demonstrate the urgent need for a new approach -- economic localisation -- that is based on the Green principles of equity, ecology and democracy. Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas show how economic localisation could be adopted and applied to help solve many of the current international crises, including climate change, trade and development, agriculture, and international security. It's a book that will interest anyone who is aware of globalisation's problems and is seeking a coherent and practical political alternative.

Contents:

Section 1 Assessing the Damage

1. Globalisation: The Economics of Insecurity 3

2. Democracy for Sale 17

3. A World in Decline 33

4. Globalising Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment 46

Section 2 The Green Alternative

5. Economic Localisation 67

Section 3 Turning the Tide

6. Connecting Hearts and Minds 107

7. Learning From History 117

8. Storming the Citadels: Sacking Bretton Woods and the WTO 129

Section 4 Applying the Alternative

9. Local Food: The Global Solution 145

10. Localising Money 174

11. A New Context for Multilateralism 200

5.1 Creating a General Agreement of Sustainable Trade (GAST) 78

9.1 Average Energy Use of Different Forms of Transport 150

Box 1.1 Greens and Growth 12

Box 2.1 Gats 24

Box 3.1 The State of the World: a summary of GEO 3 34

Box 9.1 Supermarkets 155

Box 9.2 The 'Development Box' 168

Box 9.3 GM Crops

Myths and Reality 169

Box 10.1 An Underground Currency for London 196

1.1 An environmental Kuznets curve, showing a supposed relationship within any one country between environmental degradation and average income 13

2.1 International trade and the percentage of US and UK voters participating in elections in an era of globalisation 31

3.1 Humanity's growing global footprint 36

3.2 Transport of goods in the EU by mode of transport, 1970-99 (aviation not included) 40

4.1 Unemployment in the EU and US 58

4.2 UK per capita GDP and ISEW (1950-96) 62

4.3 US per capita GDP and GPI 63

4.4 Personal income and satisfaction in the US 63

5.1 Percentage change in household income under Desai's CI proposal 93.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-249) and index.

ISBN:

0745319335

0745319327

OCLC:

54350456