Human Development and the Environment: Challenges for the United Nations in the New Millennium

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Overview

The new millennium sees humankind living in a vastly more complex, inter-linked, and mutually dependent world. There are increasing numbers of actors in world affairs today, as private and public non-state actors jostle alongside national governments in setting and implementing an ever more crowded agenda. This situation is presenting new challenges - in the fields of security, governance, development and environment - and will require innovative thinking and new forms of global governance. This book looks at the problems, processes and actors that constitute the milieu for human development and the environment. The contributions in this volume outline productive ways in which the international community and the UN system can address the major challenges of eradicating poverty and reducing the rate of environmental deterioration.
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  • ISBN-13: 9789280810691
  • Publisher: United Nations
  • Publication date: 2/28/2002
  • Series: Unu Millennium Series
  • Pages: 324
  • Lexile: 1580L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.35 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Table of Contents

Tables and figures
1 Reflections on human development and the environment 1
2 Conceptual challenges of a globalizing economy 33
3 Into the twenty-first century: Assessing social and political concerns 45
4 Policy priorities for human development 63
5 Poverty and inequality in the era of liberalization and globalization 76
6 The future of technology and the implications for society and the UN system 110
7 Population - A global challenge for the twenty-first century 126
8 Institutions, corruption, and development, and their ramifications for international cooperation 149
9 Future of global economic governance 161
10 Urbanization, industrialization, and sustainable development 185
11 Water in our future 197
12 The importance of tropical atmospheric chemistry in global change research 213
13 Energy requirements for the new millennium 220
14 Global food security for tomorrow 234
15 Land degradation: A global and regional problem 245
16 Global governance of biological diversity 265
17 International environmental governance and its impact on social and human development 284
Acronyms 302
Contributors 305
Index 307
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