13 February 1998 - Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions arise. First, are there common characteristics of...
13 February 1998 - Esta obra constituye un esfuerzo de divulgación sobre el significado e impacto en nuestras vidas de la llamada sociedad digital. Internet, la televisión temática vía satélite, las innovaciones en educación, medicina y economía, los nuevos medios de...
13 February 1996 - Many modern societies are trying to protect their citizens while staying competitive in globalised markets. The approach to welfare is no longer to provide full coverage of all risks but to replace the existing expensive systems with more targeted...
13 February 1995 - Indicators used to direct economic policy (GDP, national income, etc.) are based on a number of factors but nowhere in their calculation is there an acknowledgement of the degradation of natural resources. The numbers may look good, but continued...
13 February 1995 - Who really cares about development, despite the vast industry that has grown up around it? Are we prepared to tolerate the ever growing gap between rich and poor despite forty years of effort and countless millions spent on aid? There are open and...
13 February 1991 - President Emeritus of the Club of Rome Alexander King and Secretary General Bertrand Schneider offer both a warning and an approach to a possible solution to world problems. Topics covered by this book include the need for the world to convert from...
13 February 1989 - More than any other book in our lifetime, The Limits to Growth sparked the debate about the future of mankind. Its publication, in 1972, was front-page news. Millions of copies were sold throughout the world. Although certain anticipations may not...
13 February 1989 - This book constitutes the final report of the Club of Rome-sponsored interdisciplinary Africa project, completed in 1988 with the support of the African Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the project was: (1) to help shift attention from the...
13 February 1988 - The Barefoot revolution calls for a redirection of the economic strategy of the last twenty years. It identifies and measures the impact of an alternative approach through small-scale development projects run by non-governmental organizations....
13 February 1986 - The oceans are our great laboratory for the making of a new international order, based on new forms of international cooperation and organisation, on a new economic theory, on a new philosophy or “weltanschauung”. The book tries to explore this...
