Our Emerging World: Politics, Economics, Culture, Environment and the New Renaissance
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Our Emerging World offers a timely, easy-to-read, and thought-provoking treatment of modern-day social and environmental concerns, discussing how Western and world development is unfolding. Author Giovanni Burrascano provides compelling insight and perspective, aiding us in properly positioning such concerns in the wider world context. Our Emerging World explains how key historical, political, and economic factors influence the way world development has evolved, also discussing the role of rising emerging-market economies and where our civilization is headed.
The twenty-first century has seen a new level of global economic growth and globalization, yet it has also heralded in the Anthropocene epoch and important stress on global cultural diversity, society, and nature. As we face the interconnected issues of overpopulation, rising world urbanization, and climate change, we need to seek solutions and restore hope through a new way of thinking—the coming of a new Renaissance.
Giovanni Burrascano
GIOVANNI BURRASCANO has an academic background in geography as well as in management. He is a businessman and seasoned Industrial Commissioner, active in regional economic development in Montréal, Canada. He possesses over twenty-five years of experience in commercial real estate and construction in both the private and public sectors. Educated at both McGill and Concordia Universities, some have referred to him as a Renaissance man, others, a polymath having a sincere concern for the social and environmental issues of our time. He is also the author of So This Is Where We Stand? How Western Thinking Has Changed over the Last Five Hundred Years.
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