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Globalization’s Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future

ISBN: 0230110762
ISBN 13: 9780230110762
Autor: Carr, E
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: x, 250 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.02.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

UP AND COMING AUTHOR: Edward Carr is a new voice in Geographic Development, with both a growing academic & mainstream/policy platform. He’s currently director of a UN/Norwegian funded project that will give a voice to the 4 billion people who eke out a living as subsistence farmers in rural & undeveloped world in Africa, Latin America, India & Asia. Its point is to connect the disenfranchised and give them ways to solve their problems. He says that now all development is now done from the top down – organizations such as the IMF and World Bank decide on program and implement it, often harming local economies. Author extremely well spoken and could be terrific talking headDIFFERENT ARGUMENT: Carr argues that our current attempts to develop the planet are based on the assumption that free trade helps the developing world. Big names such as Jeffrey Sachs & William Easterly argue that world wide economic growth will lead to development, but Carr says that the poorest will continue to lose out, that inevitably they will continue to produce the raw materials that other people develop and sell back to them. The current disaster in the Congo is about small groups trying to extract natural resources to sell back to industrialized worldPRESCRIPTIVE ARGUMENT: Carr argues here that the „underdeveloped world“ has for centuries assembled their own economic systems and that the only type of global development possible is through information technology, to help poor communities engage this vast wealth of knowledge to create more sustainable and fruitful economic and environmental policyALWAYS IN THE NEWS: Because this problem manifests itself in many different ways – from the Congo to Bolivia to China, it is always in the news. Having been on the ground himself in some of the most difficult countries, Carr is well-suited to make this argument

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Beschreibung

Calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader to question conventional wisdom and explores alternative ways of achieving meaningful, enduring improvements to human well-being.

Autorenporträt

EDWARD R. CARR Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. He is also the climate change adaptation coordinator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at the United States Agency for International Development. He is the author of more than 30 publications on issues of development, adaptation to climate change, and the changing global environment. He has been awarded a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He has been covered in the New York Times (http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/climate-panel-struggles-with-media-plan/) and his blog: www.edwardrcarr.com/opentheechochamber receives thousands of unique visitors each month.

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