Civilization S Crisis A Set Of Linked Challenges

Author : John Avery
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 981322245X

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Civilization's Crisis by John Avery Pdf

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book.

Author : Avery John Scales
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813222472

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Civilization's Crisis: A Set Of Linked Challenges by Avery John Scales Pdf

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book. Contents: Economics, Ethics and EcologyThreats to the Environment and Climate ChangeGrowing Population, Vanishing ResourcesThe Global Food and Refugee CrisisIntolerable Economic InequalityThe Threat of Nuclear WarFacing a Set of Linked ProblemsOutlawing WarThe Evolution of CooperationEducation for PeaceThe Future of International LawThe Choice is Ours to Make Readership: Readers interested in an overview of world issues and a brief history of their origins.

Author : Bill Jordan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030414450

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The Age of Disintegration by Bill Jordan Pdf

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation. At the level of super-states, the constituent nations of the European Union and the former Soviet Union, and of the United Kingdom, have demonstrated this dynamic; and their constituent groups, associations and communities have done so too. The author analyses the causes and consequences of these processes, at the global, national and local levels, the significance of increased mobility and migration, and the politics of resistance to some damaging effects. He recommends ways in which public policy can offset some of the latter, including radical changes in tax-benefits systems, already being trialled in several countries worldwide.

Author : Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1849647917

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A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization and how to Save it by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Pdf

Argues that the many world crises, including the financial meltdown, climate change and terrorism, are connected problems of a failing global system.

Author : Georg Stauth
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839400814

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Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia by Georg Stauth Pdf

This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond »ideas«. The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of »Islamization« are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141976969

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Collapse by Jared Diamond Pdf

From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times

Author : Wolfgang Zank
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 075467407X

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Clash Or Cooperation of Civilizations? by Wolfgang Zank Pdf

This comprehensive volume focuses on overlapping identities and integration processes in the Mediterranean basin and queries to what extent these various identities and integration processes are compatible or in conflict. Incorporating both theoretical and empirical material, it unites contributions from a variety of countries, thus exploring these issues from different perspectives.

Author : Mr Peter J Jacques
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409498988

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Environmental Skepticism by Mr Peter J Jacques Pdf

'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, how environmental skepticism has been organized by mostly US-based conservative think tanks as an anti-environmental counter-movement. This is the first book to analyze the importance of the US conservative counter-movement in world politics and its meaning for democratic and accountable deliberation, as well as its importance as a mal-adaptive project that hinders the world's people to rise to the challenges of sustainability. Specific consideration is given to the threat of the counter-movement to marginalized people of the world and its philosophical implications through its commitment to a 'deep anthropocentrism'.

Author : Craig Calhoun,Georgi M. Derluguian
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814772805

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The Deepening Crisis by Craig Calhoun,Georgi M. Derluguian Pdf

"A co publication with the Social Science Research Council."

Author : Robert Holton,William Richard Nasson
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848262133

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World Civilizations And History Of Human Development by Robert Holton,William Richard Nasson Pdf

World Civilizations and History of Human Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. The Theme on World Civilizations and History of Human Development discusses the essential aspects such as Civilizational Analysis: A Paradigm in the Making; The European Civilizational Constellation: A Historical Sociology, African Civilizations: From the Pre-colonial to the Modern Day; Industrial Civilization; Global Civilization - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Islamic Civilizations; War, Peace And Civilizations; History: The Meaning and Role of History in Human Development; Role of Human Societies in the History of The Biosphere; Environmentalism; Role of Gender and Family Identities in Human History; Modern Approaches to the Teaching of History; Developing Dialogues: The Value of Oral History; Historical Knowledge. Nature and Man: Orientations to Historical Time; Big History This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

Author : Alicja Curanović
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000352696

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The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy by Alicja Curanović Pdf

This book explores how far messianism, the conviction that Russia has a special historical destiny, is present in, and affects, Russian foreign policy. Based on extensive original research, including analysis of public statements, policy documents and opinion polls, the book argues that a sense of mission is present in Russian foreign policy, that it is very similar in its nature to thinking about Russia’s mission in Tsarist times, that the sense of mission matters more for Russia’s elites than for Russia’s masses, and that Russia’s special mission is emphasised more when there are questions about the regime’s legitimacy as well as great power status. Overall, the book demonstrates that a sense of mission is an important factor in Russian foreign policy.

Author : Shemuʾel Noaḥ Aizenshṭadṭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9004130195

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Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities : [a collection of essays]. 2(2003) by Shemuʾel Noaḥ Aizenshṭadṭ Pdf

This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129931).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 069742300X

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Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in World Civilizations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814462785

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Beyond Iraq by Anonim Pdf

Author : Meirav Mishali-Ram
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498549516

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Conflict Change and Persistence by Meirav Mishali-Ram Pdf

This book traces the roots of the two enduring rivalries: the India-Pakistan and Arab-Israeli conflicts. It then compares trends of development and change over time and examines their impact on the persistence of each conflict. Covering a wide range of historical events spanning seven decades in the two regions, including major militarized disputes and peace negotiations, the study points to variation in interstate relations and a significant increase in animosity between states and non-state players. It shows how changes in the agenda and the identity discourse of the main actors involved in these conflicts have undermined the idea of a “two-state” solution, hindering the resolution of the persistent conflicts in South Asia and the Middle East.