Human development and the environment : challenges for the United Nations in the new millennium - Ginkel, J. A. van; United Nations University Conference'On the Threshold of the New Millennium' (2000 : United Nations University) (Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2002)
Reflections on human development and the environment / Hans van Ginkel, Brendan Barrett, Julius Court, and Jerry Velasquez -- Conceptual challenges of a globalizing economy / Karel Van Wolferen -- Into the twenty-first century : assessing social and political concerns / Rolph van der Hoeven -- Policy priorities for human development / Ruth Kagia -- Poverty and inequality in the era of liberalization and globalization / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- The future of technology and the implications for society and the UN system / Jerome Glenn and Theodore Gordon -- Population : a global challenge for the twenty-first century / Wolfgang Lutz -- Institutions, corruption, and development, and their ramifications for international cooperation / Beatrice Weder -- Future of global economic governance / Walden Bello -- Environment : Urbanization, industrialization, and sustainable development / Fred Langeweg, Henk Hilderink, and Rob Maas -- Water in our future / Motoyuki Suzuki -- The importance of tropical atmospheric chemistry in global change research / Paul Crutzen -- Energy requirements for the new millennium / Ingvar B. Fridleifsson -- Global food security for tomorrow / Monkombu Sambasivam Swaminathan -- Land degradation : a global and regional problem / Adel El-Beltagy -- Global governance of biological diversity / A. Hamid Zakri -- International environmental governance and its impact on social and human development / Akiko Domoto
Consists of reports of the United Nations University Conference'On the Threshold of the New Millennium' which was held in Tokyo on 19--21 January 2000
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: United Nations -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Congresses; Social problems -- Congresses