Human Development and the Environment: Challenges for the United Nations in the New Millennium (UNU millennium series): Challenges for the United Nations in the New Millenium - Softcover

Hans Van Ginkel; Brendan FD Barrett; Julius Court; Jerry Velasquez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9280810693 ISBN 13: 9789280810691

Publisher: Brookings Institution,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

The new millennium sees humankind living in a vastly more complex, inter-linked, and mutually dependent world. There are increasing numbers of actors in world affairs today, as private and public non-state actors jostle alongside national governments in setting and implementing an ever more crowded agenda. This situation is presenting new challenges, in the fields of security, governance, development and environment, and will require innovative thinking and new forms of global governance. This book looks at the problems, processes and actors that constitute the milieu for human development and the environment. The contributions in this volume outline productive ways in which the international community and the UN system can address the major challenges of eradicating poverty and reducing the rate of environmental deterioration.

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About the Author

Hans van Ginkel is Rector of the United Nations University. Brendan Barrett is a fellow at the UNU/Institute of Advanced Studies. Julius Court is a Research Officer at the Overseas Development Institute, London. Jerry Velasquez is a program specialist at the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookings Institution,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9280810693
• ISBN 13: 9789280810691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160