TY - BOOK AU - Ginkel, J. A. van TI - Human development and the environment: challenges for the United nations in the new millennium SN - 9280810693 U1 - 304.2 PY - 2002/// CY - Tokyo PB - United nations University Press KW - United Nations. KW - Social problems KW - Human ecology. N1 - Consists of reports of the United Nations University Conference "On the Threshold of the New Millenium" which was held in Tokyo on 19-21 Januari 2000; Conceptual challenges of a globalizing economy / Human development (Karel van Wolferen -- Into the twenty-first century : assessing social and political concerns / Rolph van der Hoeven -- Policy priorities for human development / Ruth Kagia -- Poverty and inequality in the era of liberalization and globalization / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- The future of technology and the implications for society and the UN system / Jerome Glenn and Theodore Gordon / Jerome Glenn -- Population -- a global challenge for the twenty-first century / Wolfgang Lutz -- Institutions, corruption, and development, and their ramifications for international cooperation / Beatrice Weder. Walden Bello:Urbanization, industrialization, and sustainable development / Fred Langeweg, Henk Hilderink, and Rob Maas / Future of global economic governance). Environment (Fred Langeweg -- Water in our future / Motoyuki Suzuki -- The importance of tropical atmospheric chemistry in global change research / Paul Crutzen -- Energy requirements for the new millennium / Ingvar B. Fridleifsson -- Global food security for tomorrow / Monkombu Sambasivam Swaminathan -- Land degradation : a global and regional problem / Adel El-Beltagy -- Global governance of biological diversity / A. Hamid Zakri -- International environmental governance and its impact on social and human development). / Akiko Domoto ER -