Development Or Destruction

Author : Nico Schrijver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : 46,5 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 : Richard Spilsbury
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448869893

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Deforestation by Richard Spilsbury Pdf

Looks at the impact of deforestation around the globe and in such specific places as Finland, Nepal, and Brazil.

Author : Philippe Aghion,Céline Antonin,Simon Bunel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Alexander A. Dunlap
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786610676

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Renewing Destruction by Alexander A. Dunlap Pdf

Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico and most countries, fall into a ‘roll out’ neoliberal strategy that is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing problems in communities around land, income-inequality, local politics and, contrary to public relations stories, is devastating traditional livelihoods and socio-ecological relationships. Exacerbating pre-existing social and material problems in surrounding towns, wind energy development is placing greater stress on semi-subsistence communities, marginalizing Indigenous traditions and indirectly resulting in the displacement and migration of people into urban centers. Based on intensive fieldwork with local groups in Oaxaca, Mexico, this book provides an in-depth study, demonstrating the complications and problems that emerge with the current regime of ‘sustainable development’ and wind energy projects in Mexico, which has wider lessons to be drawn for other regions and countries. Put simply, the book reveals a tragic reality that calls into question the marketed hopes of the green economy and the current method of climate change mitigation. It shows the variegated impacts and issues associated with building wind energy parks, which extends to recognizing the destructive effects on Indigenous cultures and practices in the region. The book, however, highlights what to consider or, more importantly, what to avoid if one is working with industrial-scale wind energy systems.

Author : Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Publisher : Tycooly Publishing U. S. A.
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0907567223

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Development Without Destruction by Mostafa Kamal Tolba Pdf

Author : Hisao Furukawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094634734

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Ecological Destruction, Health, and Development by Hisao Furukawa Pdf

Asian economic development and its effect on humans beings.

Author : Glenn Hubbard,Peter Navarro
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780132371315

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Seeds of Destruction by Glenn Hubbard,Peter Navarro Pdf

If you think the current administration is mismanaging the economy straight towards disaster, you're not alone: so do two top economists from both sides of the political aisle. In Seeds of Destruction, former Bush chief White House economist R. Glenn Hubbard and well-known CNBC commentator Peter Navarro explain why current economic policy is a catastrophic failure. Then, they offer a comprehensive, bipartisan blueprint for reversing the decline of America's currency, manufacturing base, and standard of living - setting the stage for the epic policy debates that will precede the 2010 elections. Hubbard and Navarro begin with a "checklist" of what it takes to be a prosperous, democratic nation - and show why Obama's policies (some of Bush's also) fail on every level. They explain why the activist Federal Reserve and Obama fiscal stimulus policies are doing far more harm than good... why we must restore the U.S. manufacturing base, whatever China says about it... how to transform tax policy into an engine of growth and innovation... how to apply the "tough love" needed to save Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid... why America must resign the job of world policeman... how market-based solutions can finally deliver real energy independence... how to reform our antique financial regulatory system without imposing heavy-handed rules that cause even more trouble.

Author : John Douglas Porteous,Sandra Eileen Smith
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773522572

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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, bureaucratic, and strategic projects. Too frequently, this destruction is justified as being in the public interest.

Author : Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190263669

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Openness to Creative Destruction by Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. Pdf

Life improves under the economic system often called "entrepreneurial capitalism" or "creative destruction," but more accurately called "innovative dynamism." Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism shows how innovation occurs through the efforts of inventors and innovative entrepreneurs, how workers on balance benefit, and how good policies can encourage innovation. The inventors and innovative entrepreneurs are often cognitively diverse outsiders with the courage and perseverance to see and pursue serendipitous discoveries or slow hunches. Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. shows how economies grow where innovative dynamism through leapfrog competition flourishes, as in the United States from roughly 1830-1930. Consumers vote with their feet for innovative new goods and for process innovations that reduce prices, benefiting ordinary citizens more than the privileged elites. Diamond highlights that because breakthrough inventions are costly and difficult, patents can be fair rewards for invention and can provide funding to enable future inventions. He argues that some fears about adverse effects on labor market are unjustified, since more and better new jobs are created than are destroyed, and that other fears can be mitigated by better policies. The steady growth in regulations, often defended on the basis of the precautionary principle, increases the costs to potential entrepreneurs and thus reduces innovation. The "Great Fact" of economic history is that after at least 40,000 years of mostly "poor, nasty, brutish, and short" humans in the last 250 years have started to live substantially longer and better lives. Diamond increases understanding of why.

Author : Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker,Anders Wijkman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Phil Mullan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447336112

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Creative Destruction by Phil Mullan Pdf

What has caused the leading economies of the Western world to stagnate, and what can be done to extricate them from this prolonged economic slump? Much has been written in answer to these two vital questions, but as economist Phil Mullan argues, the conventional answers have gotten both cause and solution all wrong. Tackling both the decay and the resilience of the major Western economies over the past four decades, Creative Destruction shows that a new industrial and technological revolution coupled with economic restructuring are required to escape from economic atrophy. Bringing to bear years of experience working in senior management positions within global companies, Mullan offers an innovative new perspective on political economy that brings the economic crisis back to basics: how did the West lose its economic dynamism, and how can it be regained?

Author : Timothy J. LeCain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,Arthur H. Westing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

Author : Jurgen Arnhold
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128167359

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Cell and Tissue Destruction by Jurgen Arnhold Pdf

Cell and Tissue Destruction: Mechanisms, Protection, and Disorders provides an overview of the main mechanisms responsible for degradation in human beings and summarizes important strategies to counter these mechanisms. This book details the properties and limits of protective mechanisms, along with disturbances to systematic physiological functions. It provides examples of disease states resulting from the limits of protective systems. Three sections consider the physical and chemical reasons for destruction in living systems, protection against cytotoxic components, and the development of pathologic states. This book provides neuroscientists, cancer researchers and physicians with robust, overall coverage of the interrelated processes involved in cell and tissue destruction in living structures, and concomitant protective mechanisms and their limitations. Describes the destruction of biological material as a consequence of the highly ordered nature of living structures Specifies the main strategies used by cells to overcome destruction, including antioxidative systems, self-repair and growth Highlights basic mechanisms of immune regulation Considers the development of selected disease scenarios, from the perspective of destructive processes in cells and tissues Details organ damage by cytotoxic components as well as septic conditions and multiple organ failure