World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse - Rilegato

Brown, Lester

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ISBN 10: 1849712727 ISBN 13: 9781849712729

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2011

Riassunto

In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.

We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lester R. Brown is president of the Earth Policy Institute, a research organization in Washington, DC. He has been honoured with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, United Nations Environment Prize, and Japan's Blue Planet Prize.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849712727
• ISBN 13: 9781849712729
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile