Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to World Population written by Vanessa Baird and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the world heading for a population explosion? How many people can the planet sustain? With the world's inhabitants passing the seven billion count and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, the world is on the brink of a number panic. A new addition to this acclaimed series takes a closer look at what these numbers mean, why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what societal changes this increase will initiate and how having babies relates to climate change.
Download or read book No Nonsense Guide to International Development written by Maggie Black and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2014 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to International Development written by Maggie Black and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All too often what passes for development improves life for the better-off, while actively hurting the very people the venture was meant to support." -- back-cover.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to International Migration written by Peter Stalker and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally. Yet most rich countries are short of workers, have shrinking populations, and need more immigrants. This is a timely guide to a major issue that is never far from the political headlines. Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the New Internationalist who now works as a consultant to a number of UN agencies. He has written two books on migration for the International Labor Organization.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to World Health written by Shereen Usdin and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of modern healthcare shows that public health is largely determined by socio-economic factors.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to World History written by Chris Brazier and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide integrates concisely the conventional narratives of history with the stories of the continents and communities of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to World Food written by Wayne Roberts and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world tour of fast food, health food, junk food, school food, slow food and even more food. It shows how real food' has become increasingly hard to find, dominated in the West by agri-business and supermarkets. With a history of world food production and consumption, this Guide explains current debate and controversies and introduces the principle of 'food security', fast becoming a global movement to make food provision fair, safe and nutritious for all the world's population at all times.'
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to World Poverty written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is wealthier than ever, yet the gap between rich and poor is getting bigger. Jeremy Seabrook summarises his celebrated work on the meaning of povertym, drawing on the experience of poor people in both rich and poor societies. He concludes that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but sufficiency. the relatively poor majority of the world's people do not aim to be rich but to be safe. Economic growth will never overcome the problems that it is largely responsible for creating. This is a call for radical thinking about the way we live.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to Equality written by Danny Dorling and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe, including many from the United States. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, and wealth. Danny Dorling considers, realistically, just how equal it is possible to be, the challenges we face, and the factors that will lead to greater equality for all. Danny Dorling is professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and one of the leading international experts on inequality. He has written extensively about the widening gap between rich and poor and his work regularly appears in the Guardian. He is author of several books, including Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists and The Atlas of the Real World.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to Fair Trade written by David Ransom and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Trade was once the exclusive preserve of big business, run by transnational corporations more powerful than governments. Now the 'free' trade they favor is the focus of public concern everywhere -- globalization and the World Trade Organization have seen to that.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to Climate Change written by Danny Chivers and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely new book on the politics of climate change in a post-Copenhagen world.
Download or read book No Nonsense Guide To World Poverty 2nd Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are there so many people who are poor in a world that's richer than ever before? Something must be wrong with conventional thinking about wealth and poverty. In this No-Nonsense Guide, Jeremy Seabrook summarizes his celebrated work on the meaning of poverty and draws on the experiences of people living in poverty all over the world. Seabrook asserts that the relatively poor majority of the world's people do not actually want to be rich - in fact, they want to be safe. Giving voice to those whose views are rarely sought, this guide shows that the answers to world poverty lie not in economic growth and wealth creation, but in a radical reframing of how much is "enough" for our daily needs.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade written by Nicholas Gilby and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only up-to-date work on the global arms trade, this book puts the global trade in weapons into the context of history. It includes recent controversial deals as well as case studies on Zimbabwe, Iraq and Darfur. Veteran human rights campaigner Nicolas Gilby exposes the cynicism, bribery and secret deals which characterise this dirty - albeit legal - business.
Download or read book Why Demography Matters written by Danny Dorling and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per adult: our population is about to stabilize, though we do not know when or at what number, or what will happen after that. It will be the result of billions of very private decisions influenced in turn by multiple events and policies, some more unpredictable than others. More people are moving further around the world than ever before: we too often see that as frightening, rather than as indicating greater freedom. Similarly, we too often lament greater ageing, rather than recognizing it as a tremendous human achievement with numerous benefits to which we must adapt. Demography comes to the fore most positively when we see that we have choices, when we understand variation and when we are not deterministic in our prescriptions. The study of demography has for too long been dominated by pessimism and inhuman, simplistic accounting. As this fascinating and persuasive overview demonstrates, how we understand our demography needs to change again.
Download or read book Population 10 Billion written by Danny Dorling and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it? Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion. Population 10 Billion is a major work by one of the world's leading geographers and will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the right questions
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to Class Caste Hierarchies written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With globalization, traditional societies are being replaced by an international working class and a small minority of the global rich. In such a situation, who is to guarantee social justice?
Download or read book No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade 3rd Edition written by Sally Blundell and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2013 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producersat the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.
