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Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century

Author : David L. Brown
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271073462
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century written by David L. Brown and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. Demographic shifts and economic restructuring have conspired to alter dramatically the lives of rural people and their communities. Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century defines these changes and interprets their implications for the future of rural America. The volume follows in the tradition of "decennial volumes" co-edited by presidents of the Rural Sociological Society and published in the Society's Rural Studies Series. Essays have been specially commissioned to examine key aspects of public policy relevant to rural America in the new century. Contributors include:Lionel Beaulieu, Alessandro Bonnano, David Brown, Ralph Brown, Frederick Buttel, Ted Bradshaw, Douglas Constance, Steve Daniels, Lynn England, William Falk, Cornelia Flora, Jan Flora, Glenn Fuguitt, Nina Glasgow, Leland Glenna, Angela Gonzales, Gary Green, Rosalind Harris, Tom Hirschl, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Leif Jensen, Ken Johnson, Richard Krannich, Daniel Lichter, Linda Lobao, Al Luloff, Tom Lyson, Kate MacTavish, David McGranahan, Diane McLaughlin, Philip McMichael, Lois Wright Morton, Domenico Parisi, Peggy Petrzelka, Kenneth Pigg, Rogelio Saenz, Sonya Salamon, Jeff Sharp, Curtis Stofferahn, Louis Swanson, Ann Tickameyer, Leanne Tigges, Cruz Torres, Mildred Warner, Ronald Wimberley, Dreamal Worthen, and Julie Zimmerman.

Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-first Century

Author : David E. Lorey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842050494
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-first Century written by David E. Lorey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most serious environmental problems of the twenty-first century have the potential to alter the course of life on this planet. Global warming, toxic waste, water and air pollution, acid rain, and shrinking energy supplies are frightening challenges that may threaten our future if we do not face up to them.p Global Environmental Challenges provides important information and gives us hope about the environment. This book first helps us to grasp these difficulties, then shows us the choices we can make. How long to leave a light on, whether to take the car, the train, or bicycle to work, whether to recycle or throw away, whether to vote to curb continued suburban sprawl-all of these decisions can make a difference.p This collection of some of the best essays and articles on the environment comes from a variety of sources, including journals, magazines, websites of ecological/conservation organizations, and other publications.p Five major sections investigate the interaction of population growth,consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development-using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path. The final section on sustainable development reveals how we can take action. As individuals, we can make a difference readily and easily without making huge personal sacrifices. As societies, we can work together in a global community of interest to sustain the earth.p This valuable resource offers readers a better understanding of our environmental problems and presents solutions to improving the health of theplanet.p

Educating for the Twenty-First Century: Seven Global Challenges

Author : Conrad Hughes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381031
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Educating for the Twenty-First Century: Seven Global Challenges written by Conrad Hughes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating for the Twenty-First Century explores critical issues facing education in the 21st century.

Writing the History of the Global

Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191760495
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Writing the History of the Global written by Maxine Berg and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we write about the history of a place, a person, an event or an idea in its context in the world? How do we do history in the current age of globalization? In this book historians engage in new dialogues outside their former specialisms to face new challenges of comparative and connective histories.

Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

Author : Thomas Reifer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131725905X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century by : Thomas Reifer

Download or read book Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century written by Thomas Reifer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite prognostications of the "end of history," the 21st century has posed new challenges and a host of global crises. This book takes up the current global economic crisis in relation to new and changing dynamics of territory, authority, and rights in today's global system. The authors explore long simmering conflicts in comparative perspective, including settler colonialism in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. They discuss indigenous struggles against environmental land grabs and related destruction of indigenous lands by the US nuclear weapons complex. The book uniquely considers the sacred in the context of the global system, including struggles of Latina/o farm workers in the U.S. for social justice and for change in the Catholic Church. Other chapters examine questions of civilizations and identity in the contemporary global system, as well as the role of world-regions.

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century

Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773574
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Preparing for the Twenty-First Century written by Paul Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.

Egypt in the Twenty First Century

Author : M. Riad El-Ghonemy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113441191X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Egypt in the Twenty First Century by : M. Riad El-Ghonemy

Download or read book Egypt in the Twenty First Century written by M. Riad El-Ghonemy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on three main themes:*overpopulation associated with low productivity, unemployment, persistent poverty and weak savings and investment capacity*the post-1950 development strategies and their outcomes*the institutional structures that are constraining economic and political progress. Egypt in the Twenty First Century is a much need

Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges

Author : Edna Rabenu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149858456X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges written by Edna Rabenu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges, Edna Rabenu examines current and future challenges to psychological relationships in the workplace due to shifting environmental conditions such as mass migration, globalization, the advent of cyber entities, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Rabenu’s incisive analysis offers new solutions for employees, workers, managers, and organizations.

Managing for the Future

Author : Peter Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136009388
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Managing for the Future written by Peter Drucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, future-oriented book is sure to number among the most important and influential business books of the decade. Drucker writes with penetrating insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations.

Global Turning Points

Author : Mauro F. Guillén
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139577042
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Global Turning Points written by Mauro F. Guillén and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is replete with uncertainty and complexity: game-changing events and trends are transforming the world beyond recognition. For the first time in human history more people live in cities than in the countryside and greater numbers suffer from obesity than from hunger. Emerging economies now represent half of the global economy and during the next few decades India will be the biggest country in terms of population, China the largest in output and the United States the richest among the major economies on a per capita income basis. Food and water shortages will likely become humankind's most important challenge. In this accessible introduction, Mauro Guillén and Emilio Ontiveros deploy the tools of economics, sociology and political science to provide an analytical perspective on both the problems and opportunities facing business in the modern world.

Global Cooperation

Author : Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351933558
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Global Cooperation written by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century global community is confronted with unprecedented challenges as well as unique opportunities. The degree to which it can establish and institutionalize norms and mechanisms designed to promote and sustain meaningful global cooperation will determine the future course of civilization. This volume brings together a broad range of scholars to highlight some of the areas of contemporary transnational cooperation and to examine the scope and levels at which cooperation can and does take place. The study examines the issue of weapons of mass destruction, explores the promises of biotechnology and space technology, and investigates the roles of global conventions and institutions as strategies for addressing the common threats facing the international system. In short, the volume raises important, timely issues regarding the challenges and opportunities confronting the global community which both policy makers and academicians will find informative and thought-provoking in their efforts to understand the nature and complexity of the twenty-first century global community.

Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century

Author : Sall, Ebrima
Publisher : CODESRIA
ISBN 13 : 2869786018
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century written by Sall, Ebrima and published by CODESRIA. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, held its 13th General Assembly, 5-9 December 2011, in Rabat Morocco. The theme of the scientific conference was: “Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century”. Some of the reasons that influenced the choice of this theme were to do with how Africa should position itself in the new global political and economic order in the context of an increasingly complex neoliberal globalisation. Changes in intercultural relations at the global level, climate change, poverty, rapid urbanisation, the ICTs revolution, the emergence of a multi-polar world and the phenomenon of emerging powers of the South are some of the realities of our world that are widely and extensively discussed by both academics and policy-makers. This book contains the statutory lectures of the 13th General Assembly. Each one speaks to major challenges that Africa and the Global South are facing in this second decade of the Twenty first Century: neoliberal globalisation, capital flight, the land question, gender relations, with a particular focus on matriarchy; and universalism.

Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century

Author : Augusto Lopez-Claros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476961
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century by : Augusto Lopez-Claros

Download or read book Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century written by Augusto Lopez-Claros and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is also available as Open Access.

Economy, Politics and Governance Challenges for the 21st Century

Author : Víctor M. González-Sánchez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781634840132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Economy, Politics and Governance Challenges for the 21st Century written by Víctor M. González-Sánchez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this book is to analyse some of the major challenges of the world during the twenty-first century from a multidisciplinary perspective. Global problems do not always have a unique approach, and the study of these problems requires a research effort based on a rigorous and understandable methodology. From this idea, the works contained in each chapter demonstrate the existence of significant links between economics, politics and governance. This book is divided based on these three subjects. One part of the book contains a study of the global economic situation and its existing inequalities. From there, some challenges related to matters such as entrepreneurship and financial literacy will be addressed. On the other hand, political inequality and democratic shortcomings -- along with the international geopolitical reality -- are the common thread that tie together other chapters of the book. Both a national perspective and regional cross comparison are present within this book. Finally, different analyses related to governance complete the third block of this catalog. In this regard, the important influence that the economy and functioning policies have on the governance of states and decision making processes is noted.

Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges

Author : Dapo Akande
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198824777
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges written by Dapo Akande and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in a number of ways. This book examines three of the largest issues of the century - armed conflict, environment, and poverty - and examines how these may be addressed using a human rights framework. It considers how these challenges threaten human rights and reassesses our understanding of human rights in the light of these issues. This multidisciplinary text considers both foundational and applied questions such as the relationship between morality and the laws of war, as well as the application of the International Human Rights Framework in cyber space. Alongside analyses from some of the most prominent lawyers, philosophers, and political theorists in the debate, each section includes contributions by those who have served as Special Rapporteurs within the United Nations Human Rights System on the challenges facing international human rights laws today.

Anthropology and Development

Author : Colin Cremin
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745333656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Development written by Colin Cremin and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century. Anthropology and Development is a completely rewritten new edition of the best-selling Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge (1996). Published to a set of excellent reviews and strong sales, it, along with the new book, serves as both an innovative reformulation of the field, and as a textbook for many undergraduate and graduate courses at leading universities in Europe and North America. For the new book, the authors Katy Gardner and David Lewis engage with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, they argue that while the world of international development has expanded since the 1990s, it has become more rigidly technocratic. Anthropology and Development therefore insists on a focus upon the core anthropological issues surrounding poverty and inequality, and thus sharply criticises the contemporary perceived problems in the field.

Surviving the 21st Century

Author : Julian Cribb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319412701
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Surviving the 21st Century written by Julian Cribb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to-read work the principal issues facing humanity. It is written for the two next generations who will have to deal with the compounding risks they inherit, and which flow from overpopulation, resource pressures and human nature. The author examines ten intersecting areas of activity (mass extinction, resource depletion, WMD, climate change, universal toxicity, food crises, population and urban expansion, pandemic disease, dangerous new technologies and self-delusion) which pose manifest risks to civilization and, potentially, to our species’ long-term future. This isn’t a book just about problems. It is also about solutions. Every chapter concludes with clear conclusions and consensus advice on what needs to be done at global level —but it also empowers individuals with what they can do for themselves to make a difference. Unlike other books, it offers integrated solutions across the areas of greatest risk. It explains why Homo sapiens is no longer an appropriate name for our species, and what should be done about it.