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High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
EAN: 9780465070107
ISBN: 0465070108
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2003-05
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Studio: Basic Books
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Editorial Review:
In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits?In High Noon, J. F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread: we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past.Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive. With its clear-eyed urgency and refreshing specificity, High Noon is an agenda-setting book that everyone who cares about the future must read.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Must Read for Every 21st Century Educator and educational leader.
Exceptional insights from the former vice-president of the World Bank. It presents a succinct and thoughtful perspective on the challenges we are facing...and...how we can solve them. ..and along the way highlights the need for different thinking and a different education for our young people if they are to solve these problems of the 21st century.
Rating:  - High Noon - 20 Global Problems and 20 Years to solve them
I bought this book as a requirement for a conference and I expected it to be another boring political/economical book that was going to make me yawn, but truly, after finishing the first chapter I was hooked onto it. The writer's style makes this book very interesting and I enjoyed it very much.
Rating: - Creative and refreshing approach
This book is a very solid, creative and refreshing proposal for new ways to look at Global problems. He modestly proposes real solutions and processes. These ideas seem equally applicable at the regional and local level where institutional change can be slow but problems need a response without years of debates and institutional resistance.
Rating: - Straight-Forward, Understandable, URGENT, "Strong Buy"
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Comment: This is still the best strategic overview and a book I would recommend all. See the others below.
Having read perhaps 20 of the best books on global issues and environmental sustainability, water scarcity, ocean problems, etc, over the past few years (most reviewed here on Amazon) I was prepared for a superficial summary, political posturing, and unrealistic claims. Not this book--this book is one of the finest, most ... Read More
Rating: - Great intro to 20 global issues
J.F. Rischard does a fabulous job of compiling his knowledge into a great introduction of twenty global issues that the world is currently facing. As the subtitle indicates, these issues are steadily becoming problems that we, as a global community, must reckon with. Rischard says that they must be solved in the coming twenty years.
Most of the twenty problems are not surprises, but some are. The author spends time mentioning that his list is not all-inclusive, and that certainly other issues ... Read More
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