Global Threats, Global Futures

Living with Declining Living Standards

AvThayer Scudder

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Global threats can be expected to cause a global environmental crisis and declining living standards for most people. Threats analyzed include poverty, cultural, economic, political and religious fundamentalism, consumption, population increase and degradation of the global ecosystem. Chapters on the United States, China and Zambia illustrate difficulties that high, middle and low income countries face in addressing such threats. The final chapter examines the type of transformational change required just to reduce the rate and magnitude of future decline.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781848448476

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Thayer Scudder, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology, US

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‘A work of political economy from the perspective of an anthropologist who has made a career of studying poverty and displaced people, Global Threats, Global Futures will prove rewarding reading for anyone concerned with issues of economic development, environmental and cultural degradation, and the causes and solutions of poverty. Most of all, Thayer Scudder illuminates a path, not only possible but plausible, through a destructive maze of humankind’s own making - if only the political will can be found to tread it.’

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Contents: Introduction 1. The Threat of Global Poverty 2. The Threat of Fundamentalism 3. The Threat of Environmental Degradation 4. United States 5. People’s Republic of China 6. Zambia 7. Transforming Global Societies References Index