| Bib ID |
1018770 |
| Format |
Book, Online - Google Books |
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| Online Versions |
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| Description |
Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2003
iv, 250 p. ;c 23 cm.
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| ISBN |
1844070182 (hbk.)
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| Summary |
"Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Full contents |
- 1. The Drivers
- 2. Running Out of Fuel: The Coming Energy Crunch
- 3. Population and Poverty
- 4. Climate: Too Hot or Too Cold?
- 5. Famines: Food and Water
- 6. One World?
- 7. The Fourth Horseman
- 8. Which Way Science?
- 9. In the Genes: New Plants - and People?
- 10. The Values of the Sea
- 1. The Drivers
- 2. Running Out of Fuel: The Coming Energy Crunch
- 3. Population and Poverty
- 4. Climate: Too Hot or Too Cold?
- 5. Famines: Food and Water
- 6. One World?
- 7. The Fourth Horseman
- 8. Which Way Science?
- 9. In the Genes: New Plants - and People?
- 10. The Values of the Sea
- 11. Multinationals: Good Business or Bad?
- 12. The Trouble with Money
- 13. The Pursuit of Happiness
- 14. Love, Family and Freedom
- 15. Habitat: The Dilemma of the Cities
- 16. Making Education Work
- 17. Health and Wealth
- 18. Religion: The Cement of Society?
- 19. The Mechanics of Change
- 20. Automation and Employment
- 21. Travelling Less?
- 22. Working Online
- 23. The Information Overload
- 24. The Toxic Culture
- 25. Running the Show
- 26. Conclusion: World to Come.
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| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.
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| Subjects |
Twenty-first century - Forecasts. | Environmental policy. | Natural resources. | Social prediction. | Catastrophical, The. | Two thousand thirty, A.D. | Social change | Humanism | Environmental management | Natural resource management | Global population | Behaviour | Trends, Long term | Overseas item
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| Also Titled |
Two thousand thirty spike
Two thousand and thirty spike
Twenty-thirty spike
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