books by James Gustave Speth

books by James Gustave Speth

books:

James Gustave Speth

The Bridge at the End of the World
James Gustave Speth

Yale University Press, 2008

Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy

Yale University Press, 2006

Ground Breaking Book on Environmental Policy
This is a ground-breaking book. It helps to understand why policy is often stalemated for long periods and then sometimes changes abruptly when a tipping point is reached. There are chapters by political scientists and economists who have pioneered in this kind of ...

Worlds Apart: Globalization And The Environment

Island Press, 2003

Worlds Apart presents a cohesive set of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, offering a thoughtful overview of the major environmental issues related to globalization in a clear, reasoned style. Framed by Gus Speth?s introduction and conclusion, essays range from Jane Lubchenco?s discussion of the scientific indicators of ...

Crossroads: Environmental Priorities For The Future

Island Press, 1988

The environmental movement today is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessment of the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. Crossroads is written by some of the country's top environmental leaders and activists, including Barry Commoner, Stewart ...

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, second edition (Yale Nota Bene)

James Gustave Speth

Yale University Press, 2005

Understand the facts and change apathy into action...
At little more than 200 pages (of primary text), this important book is hardly a boring textbook. In a concise manner, it explains what exactly is going on in the world today. I love the author's ability to define complex environmental trends and organize them into ...

Global Environmental Governance: Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies (Foundations of ...

James Gustave Speth, Peter Haas

Island Press, 2006

Interesting, and INformative
This book was very good. It is informative, but easy to read and understand. It mentions modern issues, and also mentions how past environmental acts have influenced certain acts today. A good, educational read that anyone interested in the environment as a career ...

Deserts on the March (Conservation Classics)
Paul B. Sears

Island Press, 1988

In 1935, when Paul Sears set out to write his book, Deserts on the March, drought gripped much of the United States, and the Dust Bowl was at its worst. Great dust clouds were blowing as far east as New York and Washington, D.C. The publication of Deserts on the March had a profound impact in awakening America to the task of controlling soil ...

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

James Gustave Speth

Yale University Press, 2008

Essential Reading for Essential Action
The Bridge at the End of the World A highly readable, fact-filled, and convincing exposition of how market-profit-growth based corporate economy is destroying the eco-system on which it depends and what must and can be done to change it. There's little time before the ...

The single greatest threat: the United States and global climate disruption.(PERSPECTIVES): An article from: ...

James Gustave Speth

Harvard International Relations Council, Inc., 2005

Not convincing
Although appearing intellectual, the data is biased when compared to other scientists (who are receiving no media coverage for their unwanted conclusions of no climate change.) It's interesting that the buzz word had been "global warming" for the past decade. However, ...