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Author Speth, James Gustave.

Title Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  GE149 .S64 2004    Available  ---
Description xv, 299 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Explains why current approaches to global environmental problems ... don't work now and won't work in the future ... Argues that dramatically different and far-reaching actions by citizens and governments are now urgent"--jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and index.
Contents Prologue: 1980 -- pt. 1. Environmental challenges go global -- A world of wounds -- Lost in Eden -- Pollution and climate change in a full world -- pt. 2. And the world responds -- First attempt at global environmental governance -- Anatomy of failure -- pt. 3. Facing up to underlying causes -- Ten drivers of environmental deterioration -- Globalization and the environment -- pt. 4. The transition to sustainability -- Attacking the root causes -- Taking "good governance" seriously -- The most fundamental transition of all -- Resources for citizens.
Subject Global environmental change.
Global environmental change.
Environmental protection.
Environmental protection.
Globalization -- Environmental aspects.
Globalization -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy -- United States.
Environmental policy.
United States.
Environmental protection -- United States.
ISBN 0300102321 hardcover alkaline paper