Progress for a Small Planet (Sustainable Development Set) - Hardcover

Ward, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184407949X ISBN 13: 9781844079490

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty.

In this exceptional book Barbara Ward (co-author with Rene Dubos of the bestselling Only One Earth) refused to see these processes as inevitable. It describes new technologies for recycling waste, for energy, forgetting more or less linking them to ordinary people's working lives. It also suggests a strategy for meeting the basic needs of the disadvantaged, and shows how the vast inequalities between countries can be reduced.

This perceptive survey of policies outlines a planetary bargain between the world's nations that would guarantee individual freedom from poverty and keep our shared biosphere in good working order.

Originally published in 1988

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Barbara Ward

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184407949X
• ISBN 13: 9781844079490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308