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Paul Raskin
¤ This author's Web site: Tellus Institute ¤
Dr. Paul Raskin is the Founding Director of the Tellus Institute which has conducted over 3,500 research and policy projects throughout the world on environmental issues, resource planning, and sustainable development.
  
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Articles by this author in English
Citizens’ Reappropriation of Politics
Imagine All the People: Advancing a Global Citizens Movement
¤ Paul Raskin ¤ 28 January 2012
How can we change the world?
Those concerned about the dangerous drift of global development are asking this question with increasing urgency. Dominant institutions have proved too timorous or too venal for meeting the environmental and social challenges of our time. Instead, an adequate response requires us to imagine the awakening of a new social actor: a coordinated global citizens movement (GCM) struggling on all fronts toward a just and sustainable planetary civilization. Existing (...) read more
Economic Governance and Globalization
Proposals for a Fair and Sustainable Economy
¤ Cândido Grzybowski,
Germà Pelayo ,
Gustavo Marin,
Jorge Romano,
Matthieu Calame,
Paul Raskin ¤ 23 December 2011
Contribution to the
Peoples Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in defense of the commons (Rio+20)
Rio de Janeiro, June 15-23, 2012
The seriousness of the current environmental crisis is an expression of a deeper-reaching crisis, a crisis of civilization afflicting modern capitalism, characterized by the predominance of the unregulated market, financial speculation, frenzied consumerism, the constant quest for growth, economic injustice and widespread poverty. The current and (...) read more
Sustainable Development and the Humanity-Biosphere Relationship
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
¤ Tariq Banuri,
Gilberto Gallopín,
Pablo Gutman,
Al Hammond,
Robert Kates,
Rob Swart,
Paul Raskin ¤ August 2002
This path-breaking book presents a fresh vision for a sustainable world. It describes the historic roots, current dynamics, future perils, and alternative pathways for world development. It advances one of these paths, Great Transition, as the preferred route, identifying strategies, agents of change, and values for a new global agenda. The planetary phase of history has begun, its ultimate shape profoundly uncertain. Will global development veer toward a world of impoverished people, (...) read more
Imagine All the People: Advancing a Global Citizens Movement
¤ Paul Raskin ¤ 28 January 2012
How can we change the world? Those concerned about the dangerous drift of global development are asking this question with increasing urgency. Dominant institutions have proved too timorous or too venal for meeting the environmental and social challenges of our time. Instead, an adequate response requires us to imagine the awakening of a new social actor: a coordinated global citizens movement (GCM) struggling on all fronts toward a just and sustainable planetary civilization. Existing (...) read more
Economic Governance and Globalization
Proposals for a Fair and Sustainable Economy
¤ Cândido Grzybowski,
Germà Pelayo ,
Gustavo Marin,
Jorge Romano,
Matthieu Calame,
Paul Raskin ¤ 23 December 2011
Contribution to the
Peoples Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in defense of the commons (Rio+20)
Rio de Janeiro, June 15-23, 2012
The seriousness of the current environmental crisis is an expression of a deeper-reaching crisis, a crisis of civilization afflicting modern capitalism, characterized by the predominance of the unregulated market, financial speculation, frenzied consumerism, the constant quest for growth, economic injustice and widespread poverty. The current and (...) read more
Sustainable Development and the Humanity-Biosphere Relationship
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
¤ Tariq Banuri,
Gilberto Gallopín,
Pablo Gutman,
Al Hammond,
Robert Kates,
Rob Swart,
Paul Raskin ¤ August 2002
This path-breaking book presents a fresh vision for a sustainable world. It describes the historic roots, current dynamics, future perils, and alternative pathways for world development. It advances one of these paths, Great Transition, as the preferred route, identifying strategies, agents of change, and values for a new global agenda. The planetary phase of history has begun, its ultimate shape profoundly uncertain. Will global development veer toward a world of impoverished people, (...) read more
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
¤ Tariq Banuri, Gilberto Gallopín, Pablo Gutman, Al Hammond, Robert Kates, Rob Swart, Paul Raskin ¤ August 2002
This path-breaking book presents a fresh vision for a sustainable world. It describes the historic roots, current dynamics, future perils, and alternative pathways for world development. It advances one of these paths, Great Transition, as the preferred route, identifying strategies, agents of change, and values for a new global agenda. The planetary phase of history has begun, its ultimate shape profoundly uncertain. Will global development veer toward a world of impoverished people, (...) read more
For this author, you will find on this Web site 3 article(s) in English, 3 article(s) in Spanish, 3 article(s) in French, 1 article(s) in chinese.
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