The 21st.Century New Economics and Human Sustainabaility:Readings

Part-I: The Global View (The World Watch View Point). 1. Overview: good News, Bad News, The Changing Economic Prospect, The Shrinking Resource Base, Energy-Related Structured Adjustments, living Beyond our Means, The debt overhang. 2. A False Sense of Security: The economy/Ecosystem interaction. The Loss of Economic Momentum, Population-Induced Climate change, Breaking out or Breaking down. 3. Getting back on track: Rethinking the Future, A Generation of One-child Families, Restoring Soils, reforesting the Earth, An Energy-Efficient world, Renewable Energy: Surging Forward, Recycling Materials, Complexity, Change, and leadership. 4. A Generation of Deficits: Deficits and debt, Ecological Deficits, Reducing Oil deficits, Diverging Food Security Trends, Ideology and Agriculture, Retiring our debts. 5. Investing in Children: Basic preventive Health Measures, Women, Water, and Agriculture, Population planning, Ending the cycle of Crisis. 6. Thresholds of Change: Energy, Environment, And the Economy, Crossing Natural thresholds, Oil Depletion and food production, The Costs of Crossing Natural Limits, Lessons from the Past, Our New Responsibility. 7. Analyzing the Demographic Trap: A demographically divided World, Carrying Capacity Stresses, Diverging Food and Income Trends, Growing Rural Landlessness, Population Growth and Conflict, The Demographic Trap. 8. Electrifying the third world: An Emerging power Crisis, Developing electricity efficiency, Electrifying Rural Areas, Strength through diversity. 9. Realizing Recycling’s Political: The Garbage Glut, Managing solid Waste, Recycling trends and Potential, Successful Recycling programs, Cornerstone of a Recycling society. 10. The Earth’s Vital Signs: The Earth’s annual Physical, population Growth and land degradation, A destructive Energy Path, the Climatic Consequences, From One Earth to one World. 11. Planning the Global Family: Fertility trends Worldwide, The Role of Family Planning, Family Planning and health, changing contraceptive technologies, The Ingredients of success, filling the Gap. 12. Reclaiming the Future: Unsustainable Development, Conserving Siol and Planting trees, slowing population Growth, Stabilizing the Earth’s Climate, Investing in Environmental Security, Entering A New Era. 13. A World a Risk: Crossing perceptual Thresholds, The threat of Climate change, A Loss of Food Security, World without Borders. 14. Rethinking Transportation; Whither the Automotive, Searching for Alternatives to Oil, Enhancing Fuel Efficiency, Improving air Quality, A New age of Transport. 15. Enhancing Global Security: A world at War The Drain of a Permanent war economy, Environment and Security, From Offense to Defense and peacekeeping, Beating Swords Into Plowshares. 16. Mobilizing at the Grassroots: An Unnoticed tide, The Genesis of Local Action, Meeting Human Needs, Protecting the Earth, reforming development, From the Bottom and the top. 17. Outlining a Global Action Plan: A climate-Sensitive Energy Strategy, A new Future for forests, Meeting future food Needs, Stabilizing population, A Turnaround decade. 18. The Illusion of progress: The Earth’s declining Productivity, Recalculating economic progress, The Bottom line, A Political Awakening. 19. Feeding the World in the Nineties: Degrading Affecting Harvests, Land, Water, Fertilizer, Biotechnology; A Limited contribution, The Soviet Agricultural Prospect, A Tough Decade Ahead. 20. Ending poverty: And the Poor Get Poorer, The Global Poverty trap, Poverty and the Environment, Reversing the downward spiral. 21. Converting to peaceful Economy; Initial Obstacles, What is Conversion? Building A Conversion coalition, The Path Forged by china and the Soviet Union, Grassroots Initiatives in the West, An alternative Agenda. 22. Picturing a Sustainable Society: Powered by The sun, Efficient in all senses, Reusing and recycling Materials, With a Restored Biological Base, with a New set of Values. 23. The New World Order: Two views of the world, new measures of Progress, what food indicator say, Population: the Neglected issue, A New Agenda, A New Order. 24. Designing a Sustainable Energy System: The End of the Petroleum Era, Power from the Sun, Employment Implications, Toward a Solar Economy. 25. Asking How Much is Enough: The consuming society, In search old Sufficiency, The Cultivation of Needs, A Cultural of Permanence. 26. Reshaping the Global Economy: Aid for Sustainable Development, Redirecting Government Incentives, Green Taxes, From Growth to Sustainable Progress. 27. Denial in the Decisive decade. 28. Shaping cities: Urban Planning Around the Globe, Transport’s Missing Link, Room Enough for All, Humane cities, A Groundwork for Urban land use policy. 29. Launching the Environment Revolution: Mechanisms of change, The Pivotal role of Governments, Corporations Facing change, Mobilizing For Change. Part II: The Pakistani Perspective: 30. Economic Policy: The three D’s ; Defense, Development and Debts. 31. The Demographic factor in National Security. 32. Population and Sustainable Development. 33. The Electrical Energy Scenario. 34. Pakistan’s Foreseeable Transportation problems. 35. Science and Technology: Today and tomorrow. 36. Planned Urbanization: An Environmental Approach. Part III: The Development world Debate. 37. A Not So Radical Agenda for a Sustainable Global Future. 38. Beyond Market Versus State. 39. Beware the Sloshing of loose capital. 40. Community-Centered capitalism: An NGO alternative. 41. The Hope and challenge of People’s forum 1991. 42. Economic Orthodoxy and the poor: The case of Australian aid. 43. Environmental and Industrial Development: The Asian Reality. 44. Beyond the Chatter of Monkeys: Getting to Environment Basics. 45. Education for Global Change: A new Agenda for Development Educators. 46. The Union Snoring of Supine Economists in Deep dogmatic Slumber. 47. To Improve Human Welfare, Poison the poor: The logic of a Free Market Economist. 48. South African Development and the threat of Foreign Aid. 49. Civil Society is the first Sector. 50. Human Rights, Social Justice, Ecology and Export Oriented Industrialization. 51. Building a Social Enterprise Economy. 52. Detoxifying the Green Revolution. 53. Global citizen’s Diplomacy: Quest for a Sustainable. 54. Ecological Stability, Social Justice and Foreign Assistance.

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