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Human development and the environment: J. A. van Ginkel challenges for the United nations in the new millennium/

By: Ginkel, J. A. vanMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: UNU millenium seriesPublication details: Tokyo: United nations University Press, 2002Description: ix, 313p. : ill. ; 24cmISBN: 9280810693Subject(s): United Nations | Social problems | Human ecologyDDC classification: 304.2

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	304.2 GIN/H (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P13320

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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.

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