The future of the automobile in an oil-short world (Worldwatch paper)

Brown, Lester Russell

Worldwatch Institute

Book by Lester Russell Brown, Pamela Shaw

Six Steps to a Sustainable Society (Worldwatch Paper 48)

Pamela Shaw

Lester Russell Brown

Electricity from sunlight: The future of photovoltaics (Worldwatch paper)

Flavin, Christopher

Population Policies for a New Economic Era (Worldwatch Paper 53)

Worldwatch Paper 84 : Rethinking the Role of the Automobile

Politics & Social Sciences

Michael Renner

Social Sciences

The Cold War is over, little has changed fundamentally as far as reliance on the military is concerned. Thus, at the threshold of the twenty-first century, the international community faces a fundamental challenge: either build the foundations for a lasting peace or be overwhelmed by an endless string of internal wars capable of devastating entire countries, even of re-igniting big-power confrontations. And as events in the Balkans have demonstrated, current peace and security policies are woefully inadequate.In this paper, author Michael Renner argues that the international community is more likely to avoid crises like Kosovo's by devoting as much energy and enthusiasm to fortifying the nascent infrastructure of peace as it has to building military muscle. He lays out a program for transforming the process of international policy-making by infusing it with human rights, humanitarian, and human development concerns to a far greater extent than has been the case to date-by moving toward human security.There is no single path to ending conflict. Renner makes a convincing case for a multi-layered strategy that includes: pursuing disarmament; promoting conflict prevention and mediation; building effective, permanent peacekeeping forces; protecting human rights and prosecuting war criminals; and invigorating global institutions like the United Nations and the World Court.

Ending Violent Conflict (Worldwatch Paper 146)

Sociology

Worldwatch Paper #159: Traveling Light: New Paths for International Tourism

Mastny, Lisa

From the back cover: "Everyone, everywhere depends increasingly on long distance food. Encouraged by food processing innovation, cheap oil, and subsidies, since 1961 the value of global trade in food has tripled and the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold, while population has only doubled. In the United States, food typically travels between 2,500 and 4,000 kilometers from farm to plate, as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980.

Home Grown: The Case for Local Food in a Global Market (Worldwatch Paper #163)

Business & Money

Brian Halweil

Economics

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