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Common Wealth Dividends Draws attention to the resource curse as a problem and dividends as a solution Offers a general theory of common wealth dividends, encompassing both those based on natural commons and those based on man-made commons see more benefits Buy this book Hardcover $119.99 price for USA Customers within the U.S. and Canada please contact Customer Service at +1-800-777-4643, Latin America please contact us at +1-212-460-1500 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week). Pre-ordered printed titles are excluded from promotions. Due: May 24, 2021 Institutional customers should get in touch with their account manager Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink. Thomas Paine’s 1797 pamphlet ....
The Degrowth Alternative Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation “green growth depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth without harming the environment. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Ecologizing society, degrowthers argue, is not about implementing an alternative, better, or greener development. It is about imagining and enacting alternative visions to modern growth-based development. This essay explores such alternatives and identifies grassroots practices and political changes for facilitating a transition to a prosperous and equitable world without growth. ....
Policy Guru Gus Speth Uses Poetry to Voice Climate Concerns From 1993 to 1999, Gus Speth was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chair of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (Carter Administration); and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. In 2009, he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The author, co-author or editor of eleven books, Speth took to poetry late, publishing two books of poems (so far): ....