High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them

High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
by Jean-francois Rischard, J. F. Rischard

High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
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Author: J. F. Rischard, Jean-francois Rischard
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2003-05
ISBN: 0465070108
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Basic Books

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Book Review: A Must Read for Every 21st Century Educator and educational leader.
Summary: 5 Stars

Exceptional insights from the former vice-president of the World Bank. It presents a succinct and thoughtful perspective on the challenges we are facing...and...how we can solve them. ..and along the way highlights the need for different thinking and a different education for our young people if they are to solve these problems of the 21st century.

Summary of High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them

In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits?In High Noon, J. F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread: we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past.Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive. With its clear-eyed urgency and refreshing specificity, High Noon is an agenda-setting book that everyone who cares about the future must read.

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