A user's guide to the crisis of civilization and how to save it [[electronic resource] /] / Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
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Ahmed Nafeez Mosaddeq
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| Titolo: |
A user's guide to the crisis of civilization and how to save it [[electronic resource] /] / Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Pluto Press |
| New York, : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.09/051 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social change |
| Crises | |
| Civilization, Modern - 21st century | |
| East and West | |
| Crisis management | |
| Human ecology | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- BETWEEN DANGER AND HOPE -- THE INVISIBLE CRISIS -- THE FAILURE OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVILIZATION -- THE CORE ARGUMENT -- STRUCTURE OF ARGUMENT -- 1. Climate Catastrophe -- A DEBATE RESOLVED? CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNEQUIVOCALLY ANTHROPOGENIC -- NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT -- RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE -- ABRUPT CHANGE THROUGH 'TIPPING POINTS' -- A SYSTEMIC FAILURE -- 2. Energy Scarcity -- ENERGY AND SOCIETY -- QUICK ALTERNATIVES TO CONVENTIONAL OIL? -- 3. Food Insecurity -- THE GLOBAL FOOD EMPIRE -- PEAK FOOD? -- 4. Economic Instability -- THE PROBLEM OF 'GROWTH' -- GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS -- 5. International Terrorism -- HYDROCARBON OVER-DEPENDENCE -- AL-QAEDA AND POST-COLD WAR WESTERN COVERT OPERATIONS -- THE 'REDIRECTION': AL-QAEDA SPONSORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER 2003 -- 6. The Militarization Tendency -- EMPIRE -- DEFENDING THE HOMELAND -- 7. Diagnosis - Interrogating the Global Political Economy -- THE CONTINUUM OF CRISIS, AND CIVILIZATIONS AS COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS -- STRUCTURAL AND SOCIO-SYSTEMIC DYNAMICS OF CAPITALISM -- NEOLIBERAL COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE CAPITALISM -- THE POLITICAL-LEGAL REGULATION OF THE GLOBAL IMPERIAL SYSTEM -- CAPITALISM'S PHILOSOPHICAL BASE -- 8. Prognosis - The Post-Carbon Revolution and the Renewal of Civilization -- Afterword -- Notes and References -- Index. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A user's guide to the crisis of civilization and how to save it |
| ISBN: | 1-84964-791-7 |
| 1-84964-558-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910829600703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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