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Human development and the environment : challenges for the United Nations in the new millennium / edited by Hans van Ginkel, Brendan Barrett, Julius Court, and Jerry Velasquez.
- Title
- Human development and the environment : challenges for the United Nations in the new millennium / edited by Hans van Ginkel, Brendan Barrett, Julius Court, and Jerry Velasquez.
- Publication
- Tokyo : New York : United Nations University Press, 2002.
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- Description
- ix, 313 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Environmental Information Services Collection.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Consists of reports of the United Nations University Conference 'On the Threshold of the New Millennium' which was held in Tokyo on 19--21 January 2000.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Reflections on human development and the environment / Hans van Ginkel, Brendan Barrett, Julius Court, and Jerry Velasquez -- Conceptual challenges of a globalizing economy / Karel Van Wolferen -- Into the twenty-first century : assessing social and political concerns / Rolph van der Hoeven -- Policy priorities for human development / Ruth Kagia -- Poverty and inequality in the era of liberalization and globalization / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- The future of technology and the implications for society and the UN system / Jerome Glenn and Theodore Gordon -- Population : a global challenge for the twenty-first century / Wolfgang Lutz -- Institutions, corruption, and development, and their ramifications for international cooperation / Beatrice Weder -- Future of global economic governance / Walden Bello -- Environment : urbanization, industrialization, and sustainable development / Fred Langeweg, Henk Hilderink, and Rob Maas -- Water in our future / Motoyuki Suzuki -- The importance of tropical atmospheric chemistry in global change research / Paul Crutzen -- Energy requirements for the new millennium / Ingvar B. Fridleifsson -- Global food security for tomorrow / Monkombu Sambasivam Swaminathan -- Land degradation : a global and regional problem / Adel El-Beltagy -- Global governance of biological diversity / A. Hamid Zakri -- International environmental governance and its impact on social and human development / Akiko Domoto.
- ISBN
- 9280810693 (pbk.)
- 9789280810691 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001007707
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library