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The coming famine : the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it
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ISBN: 1282660802 9786612660801 0520947169 9781282660809 9780520947160 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,

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In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge--combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Writing in brisk, accessible prose, Cribb explains how the food system interacts with the environment and with armed conflict, poverty, and other societal factors. He shows how high food prices and regional shortages are already sending shockwaves into the international community. But, far from outlining a doomsday scenario, The Coming Famine offers a strong and positive call to action, exploring the greatest issue of our age and providing practical suggestions for addressing each of the major challenges it raises.


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Challenge and Change : Global Threats and the State in Twenty-first Century International Politics
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ISBN: 1137492643 1137484799 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unanticipated crises, and general turmoil in the twenty-first century. These disruptions are occurring against the background of declining US influence and the rising power of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Traditional inter-state security concerns coexist with new security preoccupations, such as rivalries likely to erupt over the resources of the global commons, the threat of cyber warfare, the ever-present threat of terrorism, and the economic and social repercussions of globalization. The contributors explore these key themes and the challenges posed by rapid change.

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Political science. --- World politics. --- International relations. --- Globalization. --- Law. --- Human geography. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- International Relations. --- Human Geography. --- Political History. --- Political Science. --- Law, general. --- Global warming. --- Global threats. --- Global warming --- Warming, Global --- Environmental aspects --- Global temperature changes --- Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- 2000-2099

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