A new world order : grassroots movements for global change
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A new world order : grassroots movements for global change
Routledge, 1992
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [224]-234
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780415071147
Description
Paul Ekins examines the following global problems: war, insecurity and militarization; the persistence of poverty; the denial of human rights; environmental destruction. He analyzes the conventional policy approaches to these problems through a rigorous critique of the three United Nations reports of the 1980s, the Brandt, Palme and Bruntland Commissions. He also records and celebrates the achievements of the many individuals and organizations involved in policy and action at the grassroots level. Based on these achievements, he outlines the possibility of a "new world order" based on peace, justice and ecological sustainability, rather than conventional development policies. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of peace studies, politics, geography, environmental studies, development, and to the general interest readership.
Table of Contents
1. The Global Problematique 2. The Need for New Approaches 3. Peace Through Public Pressure and Real Security 4. In Defence of Human Rights 5. Contrasts in Development 6. Development for People 7. Environmental Regeneration 8. Further Aspects of Human Development.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780415071154
Description
Begins by identifying a global problematique, a coincidence of four sustained factors; war, insecurity and militarisation; the persistance of poverty, the denial of human rights; environmental destruction. The conventional policy approaches to these problems are analysed through a rigorous critique of the three United Nations reports of the 1980s. Describing the partial solutions of the Brandt, Palme and Bruntland Commissions, attention is turned to the individuals and organisations involved in policy and action at the grassroots level. Peace and security, human rights, economic development are all discussed. The author argues that if the root causes for crisis lie in Western scientism, developmentalism and the construct of the nations state, it is on the success of `alternative' work that a new world order, based on peace, human dignity and ecological sustainability, can be created.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The Global Problematique 2. The Need for New Approaches 3. Peace Through Public Pressure and Real Security 4. In Defence of Human Rights 5. Contrasts in Development 6. Development for People 7. Environmental Regeneration 8. Further Aspects of Human Development 10. Conclusion
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