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Titel Can We Afford the Future? The Economics of a Warming World
Auteur(s) Ackerman, Frank
Uitgever(s) London, New York, Zed Books, 2009, 160 p., ISBN 978-1-84813-038-8
Samenvatting According to many economists climate change is a moderately important problem: de best policy is a slow gradual start to avoid spending too much. Ackerman offers a fresh look at economics of climat change and explains how arbitrary assumptions of conventional theories get in the way to understand the urgency of the problem. The benefits of climate protection are vital but priceless, and hence often devalued in cost-benefit calculation.

Titel The Challenge for Africa. A new vision.
Auteur(s) Maathai, Wangari
Uitgever(s) London, Heinemann, 2009, 319 p., ISBN 978-0-434-01980-9
Samenvatting The challenges facing Africa are real and vast: terrible conflicts, elections have been violently contested, drought and floods , HIVA/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis ravages, natural resources are drying up , desertification,... Maathai- winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement- calls for a moral revolution among Africans; there is more than dependency, who are deracinated and adrift between worlds. But there is more than the image of dependency, desperationor savagery... Maathai presents a different vision and illuminates the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, and offers 'hardheaded hope' and 'realistic options' for change and improvement.

Titel Common Wealth. Economics for a Crowded Planet.
Auteur(s) Sachs, Jeffrey
Uitgever(s) London, New York, The Penguin Press, 2008, 386 p., ISBN 978-0-713-99919-8
Samenvatting Sachs, author of 'The End of Poverty' analyses a cascading threats to global well-being -the most significant being environmental degradation and rapid population growth- bear down upon our increasingly crowded planet. All of them are solvable, Sachs argues by achieving truly sustainable development, by finding the global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don't destroy the eco-system that keeps us alive and our place in nature and which helps sustain our values.
URL http://www.sachs.earth.columbia.edu/commonwealth/index.php .

Titel Earth Democracy. Justice, Sustainability and Peace.
Auteur(s) Shiva, Vandana
Uitgever(s) London, New York, Zed Books, 2006, 205 p., ISBN 1-84277-777-7
Samenvatting Starting in the 16th century with the initial enclosure of the British commons, Shiva reveals how the commons continue to shrink as more natural resources are patented and privatized. As our ecological sustainability and cultural diversity erode, so too is human life rendered disposable. Through the forces of neoliberal globalization, economic and social exclusion ignite violence across lines of difference, theatening the lives of millions. Yet these brutal extinctions are not the only trend shaping human history. Struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancùn and in homes and farms across the world have yielded a set of principles based on inclusion, non-violence, reclaiming the commons, and freely sharing the earth 's resources.

Titel Changements climatiques . Impasses et perspectives. Points de vue du Sud.
Auteur(s) van Ypersele, Jean-Pascal
In Alternatives Sud, vol 13-2006/2, 2006
Samenvatting Le réchauffement climatique fait planer une menace globale sur la planète. En particulier sur les populations les plus vulnérables du Sud, déjà victimes des premiers effects dramatiques des dérèglements. En 2005 à Montréal, la Conférence des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques a tenté de garantir la pérennité du Protocole de Kyoto au-delà de 2012. Mais la prise de conscience mondiale se heurte aux intérêts nationaux et les mesures engagées pour limiter les émissions de gaz à effet de serre restent dérisoires. En cause, le productivisme économiste des logiques dominantes et l'intérêt à court terme des secteurs qui en profitent. Tandis que le Nord- les Etats-Unis en tête- refuse ou contourne toute réelle remise en question de son modèle de société, les nations industriellement émergentes n'acceptent pas de voir entraver leur propre développement économique.
URL http://www.cetri.be/Exploreur4/Frameset.html .

Titel Carbon Trading. A critical conversation on climate change, privatisation and power.
Auteur(s) Lohmann, Larry, et. al.
In Development dialogue, nr. 48, 359 p., september 2006
Samenvatting The globe is warming. The more carbon dioxide from the combustion of coal, oil and gas pours into the air, the less stable the climate becomes to leave remaining fossil fuels in the ground. Yet, the dominant neoliberal approach to the crisis of carbon trading, promated by the US and enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, is failing. Slowing social and technological change dispossessing ordinary people in the South of their lands and futures, and undermining already -existing positive approaches, carbon trading only prolongs industrialised societies' dependence on fossil fuels. It is bad for the South, bad for the north, and bad for the climate. Compiling the research and analysis, this report lays out the case and discribes what can be done.
URL http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_web.pdf .


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