Description
Book SynopsisA guide to Green political perspectives on a range of key contemporary issues, including the environment, security and globalisation.
Trade Review'Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of economic globalisation to coherent and credible alternatives' -- Dame Anita Roddick DBE
'We stand at a crucial point in history. One future leads to spiraling inequality, insecurity and environmental decline - another road heads toward sustainability. Most of our elected representatives know only one way ahead - the way of corporate globalisation. So here is the exception, not more anti-globalisation or pro-globalisation, but a genuine alternative that promotes policies for people and the planet. If more politicians thought like this, we would live in a far better world' -- Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (UK)
'Policy makers are trying to make failed economic theory work, like farmers trying to milk a dead cow. Caroline Lucas and Mike Woodin know its time to move on and try something different. Here is proof that there are alternatives' -- Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
Table of ContentsList Of Acronyms
Introduction
Section 1: Assessing The Damage
1. Globalisation: The Economics Of Insecurity
2. Democracy For Sale
3. A World In Decline
4. Globalising Poverty, Inequality And Unemployment
Section 2: The Green Alternative
5. Economic Localisation
Section 3: Turning The Tide
6. Connecting Hearts And Minds
7. Learning From History
8. Storming The Citadels: Sacking Bretton Woods And The Wto
Section 4: Applying The Alternative
9. Local Food – The Global Solution
10. Localising Money
11. A New Context For Multilateralism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
