Global Issues: An Introduction
Author: John L Seitz
Global Issues, Third Edition is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life.
- Offers a unified perspective on a complex range of global issues in a variety of societies, both developed and developing
- Includes new sections on foreign aid and development assistance, terrorism, the relationship between geography and wealth and poverty, food and the overweight, and the Millennium Development Goals
- Features an updated and expanded section on climate change, as well as a new glossary
- Illustrates key topics and issues with diagrams and photographs
- Provides guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and suggestions for discussing and studying the material
Table of Contents:
Preface | xi | |
1 | The Wealth and Poverty of Nations | 1 |
The Orthodox Approach | 2 | |
The Radical Approach | 5 | |
The Growth-with-Equity Approach | 8 | |
Conclusions | 12 | |
Notes | 15 | |
2 | Population and Development | 17 |
The Changing Population of the World | 17 | |
Causes of the Population Explosion | 24 | |
Population Growth Affects Development | 26 | |
Development Affects Population Growth | 30 | |
Governmental Population Policies | 34 | |
The Future | 39 | |
Conclusions | 43 | |
Notes | 44 | |
3 | Food and Development | 46 |
Food Production | 46 | |
How Many Are Hungry? | 47 | |
Causes of World Hunger | 48 | |
Food Affects Development | 51 | |
Development Affects Food | 53 | |
The Green Revolution | 62 | |
Governmental Food Policies | 63 | |
Future Food Supplies | 66 | |
Conclusions | 71 | |
Notes | 72 | |
4 | Energy and Development | 76 |
The Energy Crisis | 76 | |
Responses by Governments to the Energy Crisis | 80 | |
The Effect of the Energy Crisis on Third World Development Plans | 84 | |
The Relationship Between Energy Use and Development | 86 | |
The Greenhouse Effect | 91 | |
The Energy Transition | 94 | |
Nuclear Power: A Case Study | 103 | |
Conclusions | 111 | |
Notes | 113 | |
5 | The Environment and Development | 117 |
The Awakening | 117 | |
The Air | 119 | |
The Water | 123 | |
The Land | 126 | |
The Workplace and the Home | 132 | |
The Use of Natural Resources | 135 | |
The Extinction of Species | 139 | |
Environmental Politics | 142 | |
Conclusions | 144 | |
Notes | 146 | |
6 | Technology and Development | 149 |
Benefits of Technology | 149 | |
Short-term versus Long-term Benefits | 150 | |
Unanticipated Consequences of the Use of Technology | 153 | |
Inappropriate Uses of Technology | 156 | |
Limits to the "Technological Fix" | 158 | |
The Threat of Nuclear War: A Case Study | 160 | |
Conclusions | 166 | |
Notes | 167 | |
7 | Alternative Futures | 170 |
Doom | 171 | |
Growth | 175 | |
Steady State | 177 | |
Conclusions | 179 | |
Notes | 181 | |
Selected Bibliography | 183 | |
Index | 189 |
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Business of Fashion: Designing, Manufacturing, and Marketing
Author: Leslie Davis Burns
This comprehensive, up-to-date, and well-researched introduction to the business of fashion guides the reader through each step in the process of creating and marketing apparel. The authors examine every facet of the apparel industry, tracing the path from research and forecasting to textiles and apparel design to preproduction and sourcing decisions to marketing, distribution, and retailing. With over 250 illustrations, figures, and tables, no other single volume provides a more complete introduction to the business of fashion.
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