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Oceans
Oceans The New Frontier explores how human community insistently pushes the oceans' limits, seeking to exploit all of their varied resources minerals, fisheries, fuels and genetic material. The ocean frontier is constantly being redefined by new discoveries, technologies, national strategies, and ecological imperatives. Increasing dependence of humanity on the resources of the oceans has blurred the boundaries between the mainland and oceans.As humanity's footprint extends, oceans are seeing intense conflicts between actors and issues. The book questions the ability of global governance to regulate access to resources and services provided by the oceans so as to protect the ocean ecosystems. The chapters show how the global governance system has not been adequately responsive while in many cases local initiatives have contributed the solutions. Special sites, like sea-ports, can provide levers for action.Oceans The New Frontier is part of a series of annual publications on sustainable development (A Planet for Life) prepared under the scientific leadership of leading figures in the field of sustainable development.
Cities
The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation.Today's urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives.This volume takes the reader straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, mechanism and tools that can influence current strategies and choices.The authors show that urbanization is not a problem per se for sustainable development, but rather that cities, in all their diversity and complexity, offer solutions as well as challenges.The reader will be inspired by vital analyses of the next decade's windows of opportunity for sustainable urban growth.
Towards Agricultural Change?
A Planet for Life 2012 focuses on agriculture and its relation to development, food and the environment. At the end of the 2000s, a consensus has emerged and points to the urgent need for massive investment in the agricultural sector, which is (once again) viewed as one of the prime engines for development and food security, as well as for poverty reduction. But what exactly does this consensus cover?While the idea of investing in agriculture is gaining ground and although several countries or regions appear to be offering opportunities for investment in agricultural land, debates are going on as to which agricultural models to choose and how agricultural policies should be implemented.A Pla...
Regards sur la Terre 2009
Comment mettre en uvre le développement durable ? Plus de quinze ans apr?s la conférence de Rio, la question se pose encore, renouvelée par l'intense mobilisation d'acteurs non étatiques, ONG, entreprises, communautés locales. Constater l'inadaptation du syst?me de gouvernance actuel n'est pas suffisant et il convient d'identifier, parmi les nombreuses dynamiques en cours, les prémices d'une nouvelle gouvernance.Regards sur la terre a choisi la gouvernance du développement durable comme th?me de son dossier 2009, avec l'ambition de contribuer ? la réflexion en cours sur le syst?me de gouvernance actuel et ses évolutions souhaitables.Au sommaire de Regards sur la terre 2009-Le bilan ...
Regards sur la terre 2010
Regards sur la Terr e consacre son dossier 2010 aux villes, espaces et acteurs en première ligne du développement durable. Au-delà du constat des enjeux et des obstacles à surmonter, l'ambition est d'identifier les dynamiques porteuses du changement de trajectoire indispensable.Plus de la moitié de la population mondiale est aujourd'hui urbaine. Les villes – acteurs de dimension mondiale pour certaines d'entre elles –, produisent l'essentiel des richesses et des connaissances,mais concentrent dans des conditions souvent précaires les populations parmi les plus fragiles, et sont aussi à l’origine d’une part importante des dégradations de l'environnement.Pourtant c’est aussi ...
Regards sur la Terre
Regards sur la Terre décrypte chaque année la complexité des processus qui composent le développement durable et en révèle toute la richesse. La première partie « Regards sur 2010 » dresse le bilan de l’année et propose un état des lieux des questions et discussions internationales : retour mois par mois sur les dates qui ont illustré l’avancée des connaissances, de la négociation des politiques et la construction de l’action dans les domaines du climat, de la biodiversité, des ressources naturelles, de la gouvernance, de l’énergie ou du développement ; retour sur les événements clés, identification et analyses croisées des tendances émergentes ; regards et réf...
Livres de France
Includes, 1982-1995: Les Livres du mois, also published separately.
Financing Africa's Cities
This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the next decades. Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time, decentralization has resulted in increased responsibilities for local government; but in most cases, institutional reforms were carried out without the transfer of a sufficient level of resources, and local capacities in governance and project management are weak. Which mechanisms will finance these extensive needs, and how will African local governments meet these needs? Specifics on how to finance Afric...
Food Systems Failure
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Smart about Cities
"The discourse on "Smart Cities" is everywhere. It promises an era of innovative urban planning, driven by smart urban technologies that will make cities safer, cleaner and, above all, more efficient. Efficiency seems uncontroversial but does it make for great cities? In this book, Maarten Hajer, Director-general of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Ton Dassen, urban sustainability researcher at PBL, plea for a "smart urbanism" instead of uncritically adopting "smart cities". Such smart urbanism needs to find solutions for what modern 20th century urbanism has forgotten to take into account: the "metabolism" of cities - the variety of flows that connect city life to nature. What are we taking in, what are we discharging, and how efficiently are we doing that? Illustrated by 50 infographics, this book highlights both the challenges and opportunities for change. It calls for a "globally networked urbanism" that allows cities worldwide to learn faster and jointly identify effective strategies. A viable 21st century planning, rather than including top-down innovation, opts to embed technology in social innovations."--Contratapa.
