From resource scarcity to ecological security

exploring new limits to growth

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From resource scarcity to ecological security

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"From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of The Global 2000 Report to the President-commissioned by President Jimmy Carter and released in 1980-and presents an up-to-date overview, informed by the earlier projections, of such critical topics as population, water, food, energy, climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity. It examines current environmental trends in order to consider the state of the global environment over the next thirty years and discusses what can be done now to achieve ecological security." "The contributors to From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security find that the world population will likely continue to level off, but the population decline in many industrialized countries will create new socioeconomic and political problems-including the "reverse demographic shock" of disproportionately large aging populations. Although world food production is likely to increase at a rate that keeps up with population growth, greater demand in China as well as distributional issues will keep significant numbers of people malnourished. In addition to these continuing scarcity issues, ecological insecurity may increase because of new threats that include global warming, loss of biodiversity, bioinvasion, and the rapid worldwide spread of new diseases. From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security not only analyzes the nature of these impending problems but also suggests ways to solve them. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

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Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
268

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Table of Contents

From limits to growth to ecological security / Dennis Pirages
The future is not what it used to be : world population trends / Robert Engelman ... [et al.]
Reflections on an aging global population / Paul J. Runci and Chester L. Cooper
Global water prospects / Ken Conca
Food policy : underfed or overfed? / Marc J. Cohen
Energy, security, and cooperation over the next quarter century / Heather Conley and Warren Phillips
Renewable-energy technologies / Gary Cook and Eldon Boes
Future socioeconomic and political challenges of global climate change / Matthias Ruth
Global climate change : policy challenges, policy responses / Jacob Park
Forest degradation, the timber trade, and tropical-region plantations / Patricia Marchak
Biodiversity and ecological security / David W. Inouye
Twenty-nine days : responding to a finite world / Ken Cousins.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
Global environmental accord, Global environmental accords
Genre
Forecasts.

Classifications

Library of Congress
HC79.E5 F76 2005, HC79.E5F76 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 268 p. :
Number of pages
268

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15627950M
Internet Archive
fromresourcescar0000unse
ISBN 10
0262661896, 0262162318
ISBN 13
9780262661898, 9780262162319
LCCN
2004064959
OCLC/WorldCat
57209179
Goodreads
647945

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