The Gaia Atlas of Green Economics

The Gaia Atlas of Green Economics
Author: Paul Ekins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This third volume in the Gaia Future Series shows how readers can create a healthy, sustainable and environmentally sound world without sacrificing wealth and happiness. It reveals the hidden costs of many "profitable" enterprises and the sacrifices we make to satisfy the market. Maps and photographs throughout.

Gaia, an Atlas of Planet Management

Gaia, an Atlas of Planet Management
Author: Norman Myers
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1993
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

For the first time since its publication in l984, a completely updated and revised edition of this best-selling atlas which brings it into the 1990s, incorporating the new events, issues, and statistics of the past decade.

The Gaia Atlas of Cities

The Gaia Atlas of Cities
Author: Herbert Girardet
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781856750974

In the last 100 years global urban populations have expanded from 15 to 50%. Urban growth patterns are changing the face of the earth and the condition of humanity. This atlas addresses these key issues, and analyses the problems of expanding cities.

Proceedings of The 5th MAC 2015

Proceedings of The 5th MAC 2015
Author: group of authors
Publisher: MAC Prague consulting
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8088085098

The 5th Multidisciplinary Academic Conference in Prague 2015, Czech Republic (The 5th MAC 2015)

Understanding the Global Economy

Understanding the Global Economy
Author: Howard Richards
Publisher: Peace Education Books
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0974896101

Understanding the Global Economy names the first step in coping with or transforming the flawed global ethics. To that end, the author explains the economic theory, social science, and thought that formed the basis of the global system. Applied to the sense of our current crisis, this book shows the ethics and forces that make the global market work as it does and how it fails. It presents a balance of the historical basis for global markets with the relevant economic theories, ethics, ideology, inclusive research of all the leading scholars, the current issues of the crisis, and the failed solutions. Through the intellectual background with an expose of the current crisis, the author leads us to a seemingly ironic prescription, which he lives—the willing, caring heart of humanity that knows no bounds. The book presents the solution by an analysis of the economic history from antiquity through the present, observations and research of the likely solutions, and decades of proactive work to enact the lasting solution.

The Commons

The Commons
Author:
Publisher: Kendall Hunt
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001
Genre: Commons
ISBN: 9780787271930

This cd-rom is for high school (and up) and is correlated with National Science Education Standards.

Global Environment

Global Environment
Author: K. R. Gupta
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 9788126908462

Critical Social Issues in American Education

Critical Social Issues in American Education
Author: H. Svi Shapiro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2004-09-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135627428

This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for thinking about education in light of these issues. Readers are exposed to the thinking of some of the best and most insightful social and educational commentators. Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World, Third Edition, is intended to work on two levels. First, it helps readers to develop an awareness of how education is connected to the wider social structures of cultural, political, and economic life. Second, it encourages not only a critical examination of our present social reality but also a serious discussion of alternatives--of what a transformed society and educational process might look like. The editors' goal is to deliberately engage readers in connecting the work of teachers to an ethically committed, politically charged pedagogy. The assumption on which they base the text is that educators must see their work as inextricably linked to the broader conflicts, stresses, and crises of the social world--it is not otherwise possible to make sense of what is happening educationally. What happens in school, or as part of the educational experience, reflects, expresses, and mediates profound questions about the direction and nature of the society we inhabit. The text is organized thematically into five sections, which address, respectively, social justice and democracy; consumerism, culture, and public education; marginality and difference; moral and spiritual perspectives on education; and globalization and education. Each section is preceded by a brief essay that introduces the readings. This Third Edition includes many new readings and addresses issues that have more recently emerged as especially significant--such as concerns about the implications of globalization and the post 9/11 world, commercialism, violence, and the ever-increasing influence of high stakes testing. This compelling text is relevant for a wide range of courses in educational foundations, educational policy, curriculum studies, and multicultural education that address the social context of education, cultural and political change, and public policy.