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The world ahead : our future in the making
- Title
- The world ahead : our future in the making / Federico Mayor in collaboration with Jérôme Bindé ; with the assistance of Jean-Yves Le Saux and the team of UNESCO's Analysis and Forecasting Office.
- Author
- Mayor, Federico.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; Paris : Published in association with UNESCO Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, ©2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bindé, Jérôme.
- Description
- xiv, 496 pages; 24 cm
- Uniform Title
- Monde nouveau. English
- Alternative Title
- Monde nouveau.
- Subject
- Social prediction
- Human ecology
- Sustainable development
- Twenty-first century > Forecasts
- Economic development > Environmental aspects
- Technology and civilization
- Political ethics
- Security, International
- human ecology
- sustainable development
- Technology and civilization
- Security, International
- Political ethics
- Economic development > Environmental aspects
- Human ecology
- Social prediction
- Sustainable development
- Twenty-first century
- Humanökologie
- Nachhaltigkeit
- Twenty-first century > Forecasts
- State succession
- Culture
- Environment
- Prévision sociale
- Écologie humaine
- Développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement
- Développement durable
- Vingt et unième siècle > Prévision
- Technique et civilisation
- Morale politique
- Sécurité internationale
- Genre/Form
- Forecasts
- Note
- "First published in French as Un monde nouveau, UNESCO Publishing and Editions Odile Jacob, September 1999"--Page [x].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- PART ONE: TOWARDS A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT -- Population: is a time-bomb ticking? -- Scandal of poverty and exclusion -- Humanizing the city -- Future of urban transport: safer, cleaner, closer -- Women make the world go round -- Winning the fight against drugs: education, development and purpose -- PART TWO: TOWARDS A NATURAL CONTRACT: SCIENCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- Developing with the Earth -- Advancing desert -- Is water running out? -- Will there be food for everybody? -- Feeding the world: are biotechnologies the answer? -- Towards the revolution of 'Energy efficiency' -- PART THREE: TOWARDS A CULTURAL CONTRACT: FROM THE INFORMATION SOCIETY TO THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY? -- New technology revolution: information, communication and knowledge -- What future for books and reading? -- Endangered heritage: languages -- Education at the horizon 2020: with or without distance? -- PART FOUR: TOWARDS A NEW ETHICAL CONTRACT -- Will there be an 'African miracle'? -- Dividends of peace and global security -- What future for the United Nations system? -- Towards a culture of peace.
- ISBN
- 1856498751
- 9781856498753
- 1856498743
- 9781856498746
- 9231036343
- 9789231036347
- LCCN
- 00043901
- OCLC
- ocm44914172
- 44914172
- SCSB-8806263
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library