The age of sustainable development, Jeffrey D. Sachs ; [foreword by Ban Ki-Moon]

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The age of sustainable development, Jeffrey D. Sachs ; [foreword by Ban Ki-Moon]

Statement of responsibility

Jeffrey D. Sachs ; [foreword by Ban Ki-Moon]

Instantiates

• The age of sustainable development

Publication

• New York, Columbia University Press, 2015

Copyright

• ©2015

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-519) and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• What is sustainable development? -- An introduction to economic growth -- Continuing poverty in the midst of plenty -- Global environmental threats caused by economic development -- Pathways to sustainable development -- Incomes around the world -- Urban-rural inequality -- Income inequality within countries -- Measuring wellbeing -- Convergence or divergence? -- The age of modern economic growth -- The Industrial Revolution begins in England -- The great waves of technological change -- The diffusion of economic growth -- Economic development since World War II : the making of globalization -- The idea of clinical economics -- A further look at geography : transport, energy, disease, and crops -- The role of culture : demography, education, and gender -- The role of politics -- Which countries are still stuck in poverty -- The reasons to believe that extreme poverty can be ended -- Strategies to end extreme poverty -- South Asia : the continuing challenge of food supply -- A closer look at official development assistance -- Designing practical interventions : the case of the millennium villages -- Planetary boundaries -- Growth dynamics -- The case of energy -- The case of food -- Population dynamics and sustainable development -- Economic growth within planetary boundaries -- The ethics of wealth, poverty, and inequality -- United Nations declarations, covenants, and the MDGs -- Divided societies -- Forces of widening inequalities -- Gender inequality -- Life cycle approach to human development -- Early childhood development -- The rising returns of education and the supply response -- Social mobility -- The role of higher education in technological advance -- Universal health coverage -- Poverty and disease -- Designing and financing primary health systems in low-income countries -- Ten recommended steps to health for all in the poorest countries -- The continuing challenges of health coverage in the high-income countries
• Sustainable food supply and the end of hunger -- Farm systems, ecology, and food security -- How environmental change threatens the food system -- How the food system threatens the environment -- Toward a sustainable global food supply -- The patterns of urbanization around the world -- What makes a city sustainable, green, and resilient? -- Smart infrastructure -- Urban resilience -- Planning sustainable development -- The basic science of climate change -- The consequences of human-induced climate change -- Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius -- Adaptation -- The politics of carbon dioxide mitigation -- What is biodiversity? -- Biodiversity under threat -- Oceans and fisheries -- Deforestation -- International dynamics -- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Goal-based development -- Financing for sustainable development -- Principles of good governance -- Is sustainable development feasible?

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ocn892887168

Dimensions

23 cm

Extent

xvi, 543 pages

Isbn

9780231173148

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2014034070

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations (chiefly color), color maps

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u907185

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(OCoLC)892887168