The world in 2025 : rising Asia and socio-ecological transition / European Commission, Directorate-General for Research.
Recent developments in the world and the strong European commitment to a regulating globalization argue in favor of a forward looking analysis. This publication underlines major future trends: geopolitical transformations in terms of population, economic development, international trade and poverty....
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| Other title: | Rising Asia and socio-ecological transition. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Luxembourg :
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
2009.
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| Series: | EUR (Series) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Jean-Michel Baer
- The Trends: The Asian century
- Poverty and mobility of men and women
- Increasing scarcity of natural resources, vulnerability of the planet
- Tensions: Tension between the current methods of production, of consumption and the future availability of non renewable resources
- Tensions between a general and simultaneous process of increasing economic interdependence and differentiation
- Tensions between spatial proximity in the context of accelerated urbanisation and cultural distance
- The Major Transitions: Stabilising the world, recognising the new key-actors
- Draw on the ecological and demographic challenges to invent a new development model
- Acknowledgements
- Indicative bibliography.