Between Development And Destruction

Author : Nico Schrijver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253004567

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Development without Destruction by Nico Schrijver Pdf

Since 1945, the UN has been actively engaged in conceptualizing strategies for both economic development and a sustainable environment. From a broad historical perspective, Development without Destruction sketches the role played by organizations and individuals in the UN system in developing and consolidating principles of international law and international governance with respect to natural resource management. Nico Schrijver highlights the UN's efforts to generate and implement strategies to resolve tensions between economic development and environmental protection, conservation and exploitation, sovereignty and internationalism, and armed conflict and peaceful access to natural resources. Schrijver's thorough analysis is an indispensable guide to management of the critical environmental issues on today's global agenda.

Author : Kumar Rupesinghe,Paul Sciarone,Luc van de Goor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349247943

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Between Development and Destruction by Kumar Rupesinghe,Paul Sciarone,Luc van de Goor Pdf

Much has already been written about the effects of the changes of the Cold War on conflict. The ongoing disengagement of East and West from bipolar Cold-War politics has resulted in an unstable international political situation which is characterized by regional conflicts. Most analyses now concentrate on the consequences for Europe and the former communist Central and East European states. This book, however, explores the effects for the Third World. The contributors provide major theoretical analyses of the causes of conflict in developing countries. Four main factors are distinguished: the processes of state-formation and nation-building; the rise or return of ethnicity and nationalism; socio-economic factors; and the armaments-conflict nexus. The volume also provides in-depth regional analyses, as well as policy perspectives on the issue of conflict and development.

Author : Philippe Aghion,Céline Antonin,Simon Bunel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674971165

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The Power of Creative Destruction by Philippe Aghion,Céline Antonin,Simon Bunel Pdf

From one of the world’s leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism. Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. We hear more and more calls for radical change, even the overthrow of capitalism. But the answer to our problems is not revolution. The answer is to create a better capitalism by understanding and harnessing the power of creative destruction—innovation that disrupts, but that over the past two hundred years has also lifted societies to previously unimagined prosperity. To explain, Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, and Simon Bunel draw on cutting-edge theory and evidence to examine today’s most fundamental economic questions, including the roots of growth and inequality, competition and globalization, the determinants of health and happiness, technological revolutions, secular stagnation, middle-income traps, climate change, and how to recover from economic shocks. They show that we owe our modern standard of living to innovations enabled by free-market capitalism. But we also need state intervention with the appropriate checks and balances to simultaneously foster ongoing economic creativity, manage the social disruption that innovation leaves in its wake, and ensure that yesterday’s superstar innovators don’t pull the ladder up after them to thwart tomorrow’s. A powerful and ambitious reappraisal of the foundations of economic success and a blueprint for change, The Power of Creative Destruction shows that a fair and prosperous future is ultimately ours to make.

Author : Celia Stopnicka Heller
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0814324940

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On the Edge of Destruction by Celia Stopnicka Heller Pdf

The Holocaust virtually destroyed the Jews of Poland, once a community of more than three million, constituting ten percent of the population, and the oldest continuous Jewish community in a European country. On the Edge of Destruction looks at the rich and complex nature of that community and the tremendous pressures under which it lived before the tragic end.

Author : John Douglas Porteous,Sandra Eileen Smith
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773522581

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Domicide by John Douglas Porteous,Sandra Eileen Smith Pdf

Media reports describing the destruction of people's homes, for reasons ranging from ethnic persecution to the perceived need for a new airport or highway, are all too familiar. The planned destruction of homes affects millions of people globally; places destroyed range in scale from single dwellings to entire homelands. Domicide tells how and why the powerful destroy homes that happen to be in the way of corporate, political, and bureaucratic projects. Too frequently, this destruction is justified as being in the public interest. Douglas Porteous and Sandra Smith begin their analysis by examining just how important home is to human life and community. Using a multitude of case studies of displacement, they derive a theoretical framework that addresses the motives for, methods, and effects of domicide. Two case studies of resettlement resulting from hydro-electric power development in British Columbia are used to test this framework. Porteous and Smith assess the implications of loss of home, evaluate current efforts at mitigation, suggest better policies to alleviate the suffering of the dispossessed, and – as a last resort – urge resistance against unacceptable projects.

Author : Timothy J. LeCain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0813545293

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Mass Destruction by Timothy J. LeCain Pdf

From the Publisher: Mass Destruction is the compelling story of Daniel Jackling and the development of open-pit hard rock mining, its role in the wiring of an electrified America, and its devastating environmental effects. This new method of mining, complimenting the mass production and mass consumption that came to define the "American way of life"in the early twentieth century, promised infinite supplies of copper and other natural resources. LeCain deftly analyzes how open-pit mining continues to adversely effect the environment and how, as the world begins to rival American resource consumption, no viable alternatives have emerged.

Author : Henrique Schneider
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786433435

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Creative Destruction and the Sharing Economy by Henrique Schneider Pdf

While creative destruction and disruptive innovation change the entrepreneurial landscape; regulation – especially regulation of sectorial markets and competition regulation – can delay this change or even bring it to a halt. Uber plays an active role between these two forces: first as an agent of creative destruction and then possibly in championing regulation on its own terms. Grounded in a particular understanding of the economic concept of the market as a series of processes, this book explores the implications of creative destruction, competition regulation and the role that businesses play. Instead of discussing these relations in a purely abstract manner, this book uses Uber as a case study.

Author : Abraham Benisch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Judaism
ISBN : BL:A0026417893

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Judaism Surveyed: Being a Sketch of the Rise and Development of Judaism. From Moses to Our Days. In a Series of Five Lectures, Etc by Abraham Benisch Pdf

Author : Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker,Anders Wijkman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493974191

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Come On! by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker,Anders Wijkman Pdf

Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome’s warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis. Pope Francis says it clearly: our common home is in deadly danger. Analyzing the philosophical crisis, the book comes to the conclusion that the world may need a “new enlightenment”; one that is not based solely on doctrine, but instead addresses a balance between humans and nature, as well as a balance between markets and the state, and the short versus long term. To do this we need to leave behind working in ”silos” in favor of a more systemic approach that will require us to rethink the organization of science and education. However, we have to act now; the world cannot wait until 7.6 billion people have struggled to reach a new enlightenment. This book is full of optimistic case studies and policy proposals that will lead us back to a trajectory of sustainability. But it is also necessary to address the taboo topic of population increase. Countries with a stable population fare immensely better than those with continued increase. Finally, we are presenting an optimistic book from the Club of Rome.

Author : Brad Evans,Terrell Carver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783602407

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Histories of Violence by Brad Evans,Terrell Carver Pdf

While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations. Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures – from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek – who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study. Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.

Author : National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : UCR:31210024718023

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Combined Coastal Management Program and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the State of Michigan by National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone Management Pdf

Author : Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada,Hans-Jörg Barth,Friedhelm Krupp,Benno Böer,Thabit Zahran Al Abdessalaam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783764379476

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Protecting the Gulf's Marine Ecosystems from Pollution by Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada,Hans-Jörg Barth,Friedhelm Krupp,Benno Böer,Thabit Zahran Al Abdessalaam Pdf

This volume reviews present sources and levels of pollution in The Gulf, assesses their causes and effects on biota and ecosystems, and identifies preventive and remedial measures reducing levels of pollution and mitigating adverse impacts. It is supported by UNESCO, Doha.

Author : Chris Hedges,Joe Sacco
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307363008

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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges,Joe Sacco Pdf

With illustrations by award-winning comic artist Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges portrays a suffering nation on the cusp of widespread revolt and addresses Occupy Wall Street in his first book since the international protests began. In the tradition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Hedges and Sacco travel to the depressed pockets of the United States to report on recession-era America. What they find in Camden, New Jersey, the devastated coalmines of West Virginia, on the Lakota reservation in South Dakota, and in undocumented farmworker colonies in California is a thriving neofeudalism. With extraordinary on-the-ground reportage and illustration, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt provides a terrifying glimpse of a future for America and the nations that follow her lead--a future that will be avoided with nothing short of revolution.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521003482

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The Destruction of the Bison by Andrew C. Isenberg Pdf

This study, first published in 2000, examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,Arthur H. Westing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037193468

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Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,Arthur H. Westing Pdf

"This book describes several weapons of mass destruction and examines the extent and duration of environmental damage to be expected from them"--Jacket.