Extent: | Online-Ressource (313 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Box 1.1 What Young Development Professionals Think About Collaborative Consumption; Boxes; Notes; References; PART 1 The Future of Global Public Goods; Chapter 2 Global Public Goods and International Development; Box 2.1 A Taxonomy of Public Goods; State, Regional, and Global Development; Box 2.2 Smallpox Eradication; Table B2.2.1 Benefits and Costs of Smallpox Eradication; Tables; Public Goods and Development; Global Public Goods and Sovereignty Global Public Goods for DevelopmentBox 2.3 The Case for Financing Knowledge for Development; Box 2.4 The Green Revolution; Table B2.4.1 Effect of International Agricultural Research; Box 2.5 The Cost of Carbon; Table B2.5.1 Various Estimates of the Cost of Carbon; Box 2.6 Influenza Pandemics; Table B2.6.1 A Comparison of Two Pandemics; Box 2.7 Managing Tuna in the Central and Western Pacific; The World Bank's Role in Promoting Global Public Goods; Box 2.8 What Young Development Professionals Think About Sustainability in Development; Notes; References Chapter 3 Environmental Sustainability as a Development Issue: The Evolution of an IdeaEvolution of the International Environmental Agenda; World Bank Sustainable Development Institutional Framework; Box 3.1 Bank Nurtures Leadership in Joining with Civil Society Organizations; The World Bank and Environmental Global Public Goods; Figures; Figure 3.1 Major International Conferences and Meetings on Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Biodiversity; Box 3.2 What Young Development Professionals Think About Multidisciplinary Partnerships; Notes; References Chapter 4 The Future Is Now: Scenarios to 2025 and BeyondPopulation and Economic Growth Projections; Figure 4.1 Urban Population, Percentage of World Population and Total, Projections to 2050; Natural Resource and Climate Scenarios; Biodiversity; Water Resources; Figure 4.2 Distribution and Use of the Earth's Water, 2010; Oceans; Climate Change; Figure 4.3 Stresses on Ocean Resources; Figure 4.4 Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, Observatory, 1960-2010; Some Indications of Progress; Figure 4.5 Major International Meetings on Climate Change, 1992-2012 Drilling Down: The Resource Scarcity DilemmaTechnology: The Planet's Salvation?; Box 4.1 What Young Development Professionals Think About Collective Global Governance; Notes; References; PART 2 Financing Global Public Goods; Chapter 5 Something's Gotta Give: Aid and the Financing of Global Public Goods; Global Public Goods for Development; Figure 5.1 Bilateral GPG Funding, by Major Purpose, 2001-2011; Figure 5.2 Multilateral GPG Funding by Major Purpose Period; Figure 5.3 Bilateral GPG Funding by Major Source; Figure 5.4 Multilateral GPG Funding by Major Source; A Trend Analysis Figure 5.5 Trends in Aid for Global Public Goods |
ISBN: | 978-1-4648-0307-9 ; 978-1-4648-0310-9 ; 978-1-4648-0307-9 |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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