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

By: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2004Description: xv, 299 p. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300102321 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.7/00973 22
LOC classification:
  • GE149 .S64 2004
Contents:
Prologue: 1980 -- pt. 1. Environmental challenges go global -- A world of wounds -- Lost in Eden -- Pollution and climate change in a full world -- pt. 2. And the world responds -- First attempt at global environmental governance -- Anatomy of failure -- pt. 3. Facing up to underlying causes -- Ten drivers of environmental deterioration -- Globalization and the environment -- pt. 4. The transition to sustainability -- Attacking the root causes -- Taking "good governance" seriously -- The most fundamental transition of all -- Resources for citizens.
Summary: "Explains why current approaches to global environmental problems ... don't work now and won't work in the future ... Argues that dramatically different and far-reaching actions by citizens and governments are now urgent"--jacket.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab GE149 .S64 2004 1 Available 50583010306136
Total holds: 0

"Explains why current approaches to global environmental problems ... don't work now and won't work in the future ... Argues that dramatically different and far-reaching actions by citizens and governments are now urgent"--jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-275) and index.

Prologue: 1980 -- pt. 1. Environmental challenges go global -- A world of wounds -- Lost in Eden -- Pollution and climate change in a full world -- pt. 2. And the world responds -- First attempt at global environmental governance -- Anatomy of failure -- pt. 3. Facing up to underlying causes -- Ten drivers of environmental deterioration -- Globalization and the environment -- pt. 4. The transition to sustainability -- Attacking the root causes -- Taking "good governance" seriously -- The most fundamental transition of all -- Resources for citizens.

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