Tibor Faragó

Our Common Environment and Globalization

Shadows and Hopes

Global Environmental Change: The Scientific Recognition of Cause-Effect Relationships

“The global consequences of human activity are not something to face in the future […], they are with us now. All of these changes are ongoing, and in many cases accelerating; many of them were entrained long before their importance was recognized. […] we are changing Earth more rapidly than we are understanding it.”

Our Common Environment and Globalization

Tartalomjegyzék

OUR COMMON ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBALIZATION • SHADOWS AND HOPES
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Foreword
chevron_rightIntroduction
- The environmental aspects of globalization and the environmental globalization
- The development of environmental science and policy cooperation: key lessons
chevron_right1. Environmental Globalization: Its Components and Evolution
- chevron_right1.1. Globalization and the environment
  - 1.1.1. Globalization, the global environment, and environmental governance
  - 1.1.2. Increasing use of the environment and the environmental impacts of human activities
- chevron_right1.2. Societies and the natural environment: increasing interference
chevron_right2. Global Environmental Change: The Scientific Recognition of Cause-Effect Relationships
- chevron_right2.1. Global change: researchers’ diagnoses, scenarios, and proposals for therapy
- chevron_right2.2. The development of environmental science cooperation
chevron_right3. Hazards of Environmental Globalization: Their Political Acknowledgment and Responses
chevron_right4. Conclusions and Lessons Learned
- 4.1. Environmental globalization and environmental science • Scientific investigations and international science cooperation devoted to the exploration of the causes, effects, and interconnections among environmental problems of global concern
- 4.2. The development of international environmental policy cooperation • Lessons learned and the future of policy cooperation on environmental problems of global significance
References
International agreements
Acronyms

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 076 7

Környezettudomány Idegen nyelvű

Globalization has had significant and severe impacts on the Earth’s environment, which is the common home of all human societies, and on which state and resources the life and the well-being of present and future generations depend. This book is devoted to the analysis of the evolution of the environmental globalization process, its drivers and dangerous consequences, and the development of international environmental scientific and policy cooperation. The most important international organizations, programs, and agreements are presented that deal with global environmental problems, and their effectiveness is also evaluated. Based on this comprehensive overview, the most essential conclusions and lessons are defined.

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