An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo . . . for with freedom  come responsibilities. Nelson Mandela Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Paul Valéry The world is for the public good, such is the Great Way. Confucius *

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Robert Kates

World Hunger Program. Watson Institute for Internatioanl Studies. Brown University


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Sustainable Development and the Humanity-Biosphere Relationship

Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
¤ Paul Raskin, Tariq Banuri, Gilberto Gallopín, Pablo Gutman, Al Hammond, Robert Kates, Rob Swart ¤ August 2002
This path-breaking book presents a fresh vision for a sustainable world. It describes the historic roots, current dynamics, future perils, and alternative pathways for world development. It advances one of these paths, Great Transition, as the preferred route, identifying strategies, agents of change, and values for a new global agenda. The planetary phase of history has begun, its ultimate shape profoundly uncertain. Will global development veer toward a world of impoverished people, (...) read more

For this author, you will find on this Web site 1 article(s) in English, 1 article(s) in Spanish, 1 article(s) in French, 0 article(s) in chinese.


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