High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them

by Jean-FrancoisRischard (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits?In High Noon, J. F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread: we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past.Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive. With its clear-eyed urgency and refreshing specificity, High Noon is an agenda-setting book that everyone who cares about the future must read.

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $18.73

  Here, Vice-President of The World Bank, Jean-Francois Rischard, offers a new strategy for solving the world's 20 most pressing global problems. The problems he highlights all have two things in common: they are getting worse, not better; and the standard strategies for dealing with them, such as international treaties, are inadequate. In our highly populated, fast-moving, globalized world, we do not have an effective way of adressing the problems that such a world creates. Rischard lays out a scheme for a new institution for global governance, which he calls global issue networks , that would be recognized and supported by governments but would function as extra-governmental bodies devoted to particular problems. Their powers would not be legal but normative; they would monitor compliance with various globally recognized standards and would single out the nations and organizations that were not co-operating.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $23.08

  In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits?In High Noon, J. F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread: we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past.Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive. With its clear-eyed urgency and refreshing specificity, High Noon is an agenda-setting book that everyone who cares about the future must read.