Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.

Author: Speth, James Gustave.

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

ISBN: 0300102321 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Description: xv, 299 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s): Global environmental change.
Environmental protection.
Globalization Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy United States.
Environmental protection United States.

Contents: Prologue: 1980 -- pt. 1. Environmental challenges go global -- A world of wounds -- Lost in Eden -- Pollution and climate change in a full world -- pt. 2. And the world responds -- First attempt at global environmental governance -- Anatomy of failure -- pt. 3. Facing up to underlying causes -- Ten drivers of environmental deterioration -- Globalization and the environment -- pt. 4. The transition to sustainability -- Attacking the root causes -- Taking "good governance" seriously -- The most fundamental transition of all -- Resources for citizens.