Human development and the environment
Subtitle: challenges for the United Nations in the new millennium
By: edited by Hans van Ginkel ... [et al.]
Contributors: Ginkel, J. A. van; United Nations University Conference 'On the Threshold of the New Millennium' (2000 : United Nations University)
Series: UNU millennium series
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: United Nations -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Congresses; Social problems -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "UNUP-1069"--T.p. verso

Papers presented at a conference entitled "On the Threshold of the New Millennium" held in Tokyo on Jan. 19-21, 2000

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Reflections on human development and the environment / Hans van Ginkel, Brendan Barrett, Julius Court, Jerry Velasquez; title: Conceptual challenges of a globalizing economy / Karel van Wolferen; title: Into the twenty-first century : assessing social and political concerns / Rolph van der Hoeven; title: Policy priorities for human development / Ruth Kagia; title: Poverty and inequality in the era of liberalization and globalization / Giovanni Andrea Cornia; title: The future of technology and the implications for society and the UN system / Jerome Glenn, Theodore Gordon; title: Population : a global challenge for the twenty-first century / Wolfgang Lutz; title: Institutions, corruption, and development, and their ramifications for international cooperation / Beatrice Weder; title: Future of global economic governance / Walden Bello; title: Urbanization, industrialization, and sustainable development / Fred Langeweg, Henk Hilderink, Rob Maas; title: Water in our future / Motoyuki Suzuki; title: The importance of tropical atmospheric chemistry in global change research / Paul Crutzen; title: Energy requirements for the new millennium / Ingvar B. Fridleifsson; title: Global food security for tomorrow / Monkombu Sambasivam Swaminathan; title: Land degradation : a global and regional problem / Adel El-Beltagy; title: Global governance of biological diversity / A. Hamid Zakri; title: International environmental governance and its impact on social and human development / Akiko Domoto