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978-0-231-53900-5 |
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e-book (MDP) |
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Sachs, J. D. |
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The age of sustainable development / |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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United States of America : |
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Columbia University Press books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2015. |
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xvii, 565 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Summary, etc |
PREFACE<br/>We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before.<br/>Business, ideas, technologies, people, and even epidemic diseases cross borders<br/>with unprecedented speed and intensity. We share the exhilaration of<br/>the new information age and also the fears of global-scale environmental<br/>disruption. Business practices, technologies, and the size and age structure<br/>of populations are changing rapidly. There are new opportunities and also<br/>new risks. For these reasons, I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of<br/>Sustainable Development.<br/>As I will describe, sustainable development is both a way of looking at the<br/>world, with a focus on the interlinkages of economic, social, and environmental<br/>change, and a way of describing our shared aspirations for a decent<br/>life, combining economic development, social inclusion, and environmental<br/>sustainability. It is, in short, both an analytical theory and a “normative”<br/>or ethical framework. Our new era will soon be described by new global<br/>goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<br/>Other powerful ideas also express the novelty of our era. Leading geoscientists<br/>have coined the term Anthropocene, with the Greek roots meaning<br/>“human-made” (anthropo) and “new” (cene). The Anthropocene is our<br/>current, unprecedented epoch of the Earth in which the Earth’s physical<br/>change—climate, biodiversity, chemistry—is mainly driven by human activity.<br/>Leading ecologists have adopted the idea of “planetary boundaries” to explain the limits beyond which human activities will tip the Earth into uncharted<br/>and dangerous patterns of climate disruption, loss of biodiversity, and change in<br/>the chemistry of the air, land, and oceans. Both of these key concepts describe the<br/>realities of the new Age of Sustainable Development.<br/>Our geopolitics is changing rapidly as well. Our once “bipolar” world, divided<br/>between the rival superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, is now<br/>a complex multipolar world with many regional powers and nearly 200 countries,<br/>many new and with fragile institutions. This new multipolar world must find the<br/>means to preserve peace, pursue economic development, and face the unprecedented<br/>environmental challenges of our age. New forms of global governance<br/>will therefore play a key role in meeting the new SDGs.<br/>I am excited to share these ideas with you as we enter a new era together. Our<br/>hopes are high—to end extreme poverty and protect the planet from the side<br/>effects of our own actions. Yet the challenges are immense and unprecedented.<br/>I hope that this volume will be of help in identifying pathways forward in our new<br/>age. And I hope that many young readers and students will soon become the creative<br/>and dedicated leaders of sustainable development in our new age. |
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