This book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty-first century - towards bold initiatives with big costs, and much bigger benefits. It explores the...

Ideology, social theory, and paradigms -- Human evolution and socio-environmental outcomes -- Ideology and the environment: from isolation to integration -- Competing views on the population-resource balance -- Economic growth: for worse or for better? -- Towards a new concept and definition of...

Introduction / Damien Kingsbury -- Reconceptualising development : the painful job of thinking / Andrew Hewett and Chris Roche -- The g7+ group of fragile states : towards improved international engagement / Simon Fenby -- After the washington consensus / John McKay -- Civil war and the limits...