"The world today is facing unprecedented challenges of governance far beyond what the United Nations, established more than 70 years ago, was designed to face. The grave effects of global climate change are already manifesting themselves, requiring rapid, far-reaching and unprec…
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Governing through Globalised Crime provides an analysis of the impact of globalisation of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system. It explores how the perceived increased risk in global security has resulted in a reformulation of the relatio…
For Policy-makers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental change in security discourse -- 2.1. Redefining security -- 2.2. Current security policy strategies -- 2.3. WBGU's aims and use of terms -- 3. Known conflict impacts of environmental change -- 3.1. State of conflict resear…
"World City Network interprets cities as global service centres. With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business se…
'Agriculture's bast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped. New ideas, research, and initiatives developed over the past decade have created an opportunity for reimagining and redesigning agricultural and food systems for the benefit of nutrition. To suppo…
"Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carr…
Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems analyses the world's twenty-three biggest problems and possible solutions.
This title offers a rigorous overview of 23 of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population.
The world has many pressing problems. Thanks to the efforts of governments, NGOs, and individual activists there is no shortage of ideas for resolving them. However, even if all governments were willing to spend more money on solving the problems, we cannot do it all at once. We…
Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems analyses the world's twenty-three biggest problems and possible solutions.
The world has many pressing problems. Thanks to the efforts of governments, NGOs, and individual activists there is no shortage of ideas for resolving them. However, even if all governments were willing to spend more money on solving the problems, we cannot do it all at once. We…
