Sistema Bibliotecario Area Metropolitana

Abstract: Lester R. Brown documents the ways in which human demands are outstripping the earth's natural capacities - and how the resulting environment damage is undermining food production

Abstract: Written in a highly readable style, "The Earth Policy Reader" assesses progress in building an eco-economy. For those concerned about the future habitability of the earth, finding a better assestment will not be easy.

Abstract: Sick explores conteporary issues of gender, emplowerment, access toriesources, and Fair Trade as an examines howCosta Ricas cofee-producing households cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. She integrates household, regional, and global processes.

Abstract: Should you be worried about world population growth?The birth rate is falling in many industrialized countries; in some cases populations are actually shrinking. In many nations where the population has exploded in recent decades, birth rates remain high, and populations will likelydouble or triple in the next half-century. In examining the stakes involved in potentially adding another billion people to the world population over the next fifty years, the authors call for immediate expansion of international family planning assistance to the millions of couples who still access, and new investment in educating young people in the Third World, helping to promote a shift to smaller families.

Abstract: This book examines the current state of agricoltural and food regulations as they affects trade. The authors discuss the efficacy and teh compatibility of countries' food regulations and analyze the tensions that have emerged from increased regulation based on production processes.

Abstract: Gresser shows how his fellow liberals who look to put the brakes on globalization have unwittingly turned their backs on the poor, and have abandoned a tradition heralded by Roosvelt, Kennedy, and Clinton. American liberals have forgotten where they come from, and they have little idea how to move forward in finding solutions for global aconomic problems.