From resource scarcity to ecological security
Subtitle: exploring new limits to growth
By: edited by Dennis Pirages and Ken Cousins.
Contributors: Pirages, Dennis.; Cousins, Ken, 1964-
Series: Global environmental accord; Global environmental accords
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780262661898; 9780262162319
Subjects: Global 2000 Study (U.S.); Environmental policy; Twenty-first century -- Forecasts
Genres: Forecasts.
Description: "From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of The Global 2000 Report to the President-commissioned by President Jimmy Carter and released in 1980-and presents an up-to-date overview, informed by the earlier projections, of such critical topics as population, water, food, energy, climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity. It examines current environmental trends in order to consider the state of the global environment over the next thirty years and discusses what can be done now to achieve ecological security." "The contributors to From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security find that the world population will likely continue to level off, but the population decline in many industrialized countries will create new socioeconomic and political problems-including the "reverse demographic shock" of disproportionately large aging populations. Although world food production is likely to increase at a rate that keeps up with population growth, greater demand in China as well as distributional issues will keep significant numbers of people malnourished. In addition to these continuing scarcity issues, ecological insecurity may increase because of new threats that include global warming, loss of biodiversity, bioinvasion, and the rapid worldwide spread of new diseases. From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security not only analyzes the nature of these impending problems but also suggests ways to solve them. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: From limits to growth to ecological security / Dennis Pirages; title: The future is not what it used to be : world population trends / Robert Engelman ... [et al.]; title: Reflections on an aging global population / Paul J. Runci and Chester L. Cooper; title: Global water prospects / Ken Conca; title: Food policy : underfed or overfed? / Marc J. Cohen; title: Energy, security, and cooperation over the next quarter century / Heather Conley and Warren Phillips; title: Renewable-energy technologies / Gary Cook and Eldon Boes; title: Future socioeconomic and political challenges of global climate change / Matthias Ruth; title: Global climate change : policy challenges, policy responses / Jacob Park; title: Forest degradation, the timber trade, and tropical-region plantations / Patricia Marchak; title: Biodiversity and ecological security / David W. Inouye; title: Twenty-nine days : responding to a finite world / Ken Cousins.