Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849641531
Content:
A guide to Green political perspectives on a range of key contemporary issues, including the environment, security and globalisation.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Globalisation: The Economics of Insecurity -- 2. Democracy for Sale -- 3. A World in Decline -- 4. Globalising Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment -- 5. Economic Localisation -- 6. Connecting Hearts and Minds -- 7. Learning From History -- 8. Storming the Citadels: Sacking Bretton Woods and the WTO -- 9. Local Food: The Global Solution -- 10. Localising Money -- 11. A New Context for Multilateralism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Tables, Figures and Boxes -- 5.1 Creating a General Agreement of Sustainable Trade ( GAST) -- 9.1 Average Energy Use of Different Forms of Transport -- Box 1.1 Greens and Growth -- Box 2.1 GATS -- Box 3.1 The State of the World: a summary of GEO 3 -- Box 9.1 Supermarkets -- Box 9.2 The 'Development Box' -- Box 9.3 GM Crops - Myths and Reality -- Box 10.1 An Underground Currency for London -- 1.1 An environmental Kuznets curve, showing a supposed relationship within any one country between environmental degradation and average income -- 2.1 International trade and the percentage of US and UK voters participating in elections in an era of globalisation -- 3.1 Humanity's growing global footprint -- 3.2 Transport of goods in the EU by mode of transport, 1970 - 99 (aviation not included) -- 4.1 Unemployment in the EU and US -- 4.2 UK per capita GDP and ISEW (1950 - 96) -- 4.3 US per capita GDP and GPI -- 4.4 Personal income and satisfaction in the US -- 5.1 Percentage change in household income under Desai's CI proposal.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745319339
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745319339
Language:
English
