The Future of the Oceans

Published 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 frontier.

Author: Elisabeth Mann Borgese

Available at University of Ottawa Press

 

Other Publications

A History of the Club of Rome

A History of the Club of Rome

26 February 2026 - This publication revisits the history of the Club of Rome from its founding in 1968 to the present day. Drawing on archival research and interviews with long-standing members, it traces how the organisation evolved through moments of global...

The End of Population Growth

The End of Population Growth

09 February 2026 - The era of population growth is ending - and societies are unprepared, argues Ugo Bardi in this report to the Club of Rome. In The End of Population Growth, systems scientist and author Ugo Bardi argues that population decline is likely to begin...

Rewiring finance for transformative innovation

Rewiring finance for transformative innovation

04 December 2025 - This report, developed with the EIB Institute, sets out how Europe can reconfigure finance to support transformative innovation – the kind needed to respond to interconnected ecological, social and economic crises. It argues that today’s financial...

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