Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2004Description: xv, 299 p. ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300102321 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 363.7/00973 22
- GE149 .S64 2004
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"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.