Managing the Earth: The Linacre Lectures 2001

Edited by James C. Briden and Thomas E. Downing

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Abstract: Although it is now widely recognized throughout societies around the world that humankind is straining the capacity of our planet, the responses of the many parties who need to come together to solve the myriad challenges have in general been sectoral in their approach. Yet the dangers presented by drawing successively on Earth's natural resources and exacerbating drought, water scarcity, hunger, health - indeed the viability of whol ecommunities and countries - coupled with the economic and social aspirations of the developed and developing world, clearly call for holistic vision leading to coordinated action. In this book, eight highly experienced authors from acaemia, intergovernmental negotiation, and diplomacy each present their own perspective and assess prospects for progress. the necessity for interdisciplinarity of approach, and for partnership and altruism on an unprecedented scale for solution, and for new negotiation and arbitration frameworks, emerge as inevitalbe conclusions. Contributors to this volume - Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of teh Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research, and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Potsdam, Germany; Professor Robert Costanza, Department of Zoology, University of Maryland; Sir Crispin Tickell, Warden of Green College Oxford 1990-97, and British Permanent Representative to the UN 1987-90; Chairman of Erthwatch (Europe) 1994-7, Convenor, Government Panel on Sustainable Development since 1994; Dr Bert Metz, Netherlands Institute of Publish Health and the Environment. Chairman of the current Task Force III of the IPCC; Dr Joyeeta Gupta, Senior Researcher, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; Professor Philippe Sands, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, and Global Professor of Law, New York University. Co-Director, Project on International Courts and Tribunals; Sir John Browne, Group Chief Executive, BP Amoco, non-executive director of Goldman Sachs Group and Intel Corporation, a trustee of the British Museum, a member of the supervisory board of Daimler Chrysler, and vice-president of the board of the Prince of Wales's Business Leaders' Forum

Date: 2002
ISBN: 9780199252671
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