Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization

by Hilary F. French

Book Overview

Our world is shrinking fast: goods, money, microbes, pollution, people, and ideas are crossing borders with growing ease. National governments are ill-suited for tackling the problems that result, from climate change, to the soaring trade in limited resource commodities like timber, to the management of regional water supplies. Hilary French argues that the only long-term solution to our environmental problems is a worldwide commitment to strengthening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393320049
• ISBN13: 9780393320046
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Best Introduction to Globalization and the Environment

If you have ever wondered what all the fuss surrounding the WTO meetings in Seattle was about, or who the World Bank and IMF are and their impacts on the environment, this is the book for you! Clearly written and meticulously researched, Vanishing Borders makes many of the complex issues of globalization and the environment accessible to a general audience. This book goes out of its way to tell all sides of an issue and to look toward what can be done to improve the world in the future. I highy recommend it.