{"product_id":"high-noon-20-global-problems-20-years-to-solve-them-9780465070107","title":"High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean-Francois Rischard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Environmental Conservation \u0026amp; Protection - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this ambitious, challenging, yet superbly readable book, Jean-Francois Rischard first tells us what constitutes a \"global\" problem and then offers a brief overview of the twenty most important. He finds they all have two things in common: They're getting worse, not better, and the standard strategies for dealing with them, such as international treaties, are woefully inadequate to the task. The chief problem is that in our high-population, fast-moving, globalized and interconnected world, we don't have an effective way of addressing the problems that such a world creates. Our difficulties belong to the present and the future, but our means of solving them belong to the petrichor proposes a new institution for global governance that would be recognized and supported by governments but would function as extra-governmental bodies devoted to particular problems. The powers of these \"global issues networks\" would not be legal but normative: They would monitor compliance with various globally recognized standards and would single out the nations and organizations that were not co-operating. Anyone who has eaten a can of \"dolphin-safe\" tuna knows how powerful, in a market-driven world, the pressure to comply with such standards can be. No book has ever presented such a clear and unified appraisal of global problems or offered such a consistent and well-defined approach to solving them. High Noon will be an agenda-setting book of interest across the political spectrum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47589610651799,"sku":"9780465070107","price":2165.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780465070107.webp?v=1774969320","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/high-noon-20-global-problems-20-years-to-solve-them-9780465070107","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}