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Title World at risk : a global issues sourcebook.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  300 W893 2010    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xvii, 822 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Demographics and Settlement -- Immigration / Tara Magner -- Population / Ulla Larsen -- Refugees and forced migrants / Stephen C. Lubkemann -- Urbanization / Melanie Jarman -- Part II: Economics -- Development aid / Catherine E. Weaver -- Income inequality / Bob Sutcliffe -- International finance / Clint Peinhardt -- Labor and employment / Scott B. Martin -- World trade / Kar-yiu Wong -- Part III: Environment -- Biodiversity / Tim Allman -- Deforestation / Tim Allman -- Energy / Richard B. Norgaard -- Freshwater / Melanie Jarman -- Climate change / Melanie Jarman -- Pollution / Melanie Jarman -- Part IV: Education, Health, and Welfare -- AIDS / Ulla Larsen -- Health / David E. Bloom, David Canning, Jennifer O'Brien -- Hunger and food security / Suresh C. Babu -- Literacy and educational access / Ulla Larsen -- Women / Aili Tripp -- Part V: Politics and goverance -- Human rights / Daan Bronkhorst -- International law / Bruce Cronin -- International criminal justice / Eric Stover -- Transnational governance / Daan Bronkhorst -- War crimes / Timothy L.H. McCormack -- Part VI: Security -- Arms control / J. Peter Scoblic -- Drug trafficking / Mary Sisson -- Ethnic and regional conflict / Murat Somer -- Genocide / Edward Kissi -- Human trafficking / Rachel Shigekane -- Peacemaking and peacebuilding / Mary Hope Schwoebel, Erin McCandless -- Terrorism / Ann E. Robertson.
Summary Contains articles that analyze thirty significant issues facing the world in the twenty-first century, covering the fields of economics, the environment, human development, law, politics, and security, and includes maps, statistics, case studies, biographical sketches, and other references and resources.
Subject International relations.
World politics -- 21st century.
Security, International.
Environmental policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Economic history -- 21st century.
Social history -- 21st century.
Added Author CQ Press.
ISBN 9780872899193 (cloth : alk. paper)
0872899195 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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