Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Speth, James Gustave.

Series:

Yale Nota bene.

Yale Nota bene

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global environmental change.

Environmental protection.

Globalization--Environmental aspects.

Globalization.

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 329 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earths environment are not succeeding. Still, he says, the challenges are not insurmountable. He offers comprehensive, viable new strategies for dealing with environmental threats around the world.The author explains why current approaches to critical global environmental problemsclimate change, biodiversity loss, deterioration of marine environments, deforestation, water shortages, and othersdont work. He offers intriguing insights into why we have been able to address domestic environmental threats with some success while largely failing at the international level. Setting forth eight specific steps to a sustainable future, Speth convincingly argues that dramatically different government and citizen action are now urgent. If ever a book could be described as essential, this is it.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Prologue: 1980

Part One. Environmental Challenges Go Global . . .

1. A World of Wounds

2. Lost in Eden

3. Pollution and Climate Change in a Full World

Part Two. . . . And the World Responds

4. First Attempt at Global Environmental Governance

5. Anatomy of Failure

Part Three. Facing Up to Underlying Causes

6. Ten Drivers of Environmental Deterioration

7. Globalization and the Environment

Part Four. The Transition to Sustainability

8. Attacking the Root Causes

9. Taking "Good Governance" Seriously

10. The Most Fundamental Transition of All

Afterword

Resources for Citizens

List of Abbreviations

Notes

For Further Reading: A Bookshelf

Index.

Notes:

"With a new afterword on global change."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611722043

1-281-72204-9

0-300-12832-0

OCLC:

923588815