The Next World War: Tribes, Cities, Nations and Ecological Decline
University of Toronto Press. 2004
The global agenda is dangerously unbalanced. Our pre-occupation with promoting global economic growth is producing remarkable and in most respects beneficial changes around the world. However, it is also exacerbating inequity and leading to growing competition between nations for access to shrinking resources on a degrading planet. This presents the peoples of the world with a fateful choice. Like the tribes, cities and nations of earlier times we can choose to fight our neighbours for privileged access to declining ecological goods and services or mobilize on a scale as if for war in order to equitably meet the challenge of provisioning the world’s peoples.
Policy Forum, 2006
The financial problems facing cities are the result of outdated planning precepts from an era of few people and abundant environmental resources. A new urban agenda is needed based on four self-reinforcing strategies: increasing population densities, mass transit systems, green buildings, and a policy of recycling everything.
2007
New Economy innovation is shaping patterns of economic advance and providing the ever-changing market opportunities around which nation states compete for growth and jobs. These fields commandeer most global investment in technology development and are driven largely by opportunistic, short-term market considerations. This results in randomly generated innovation. We must break this pattern by directing greater innovation effort to restructure our interactions with natural systems.
A National Science and Technology Strategy
Report of the CATA National Technology Policy Roundtable
Marketing Advanced Technology Goods and Services
Report of the CATA National Technology Policy Roundtable
Educating for the Knowledge-Based Economy
Report of the CATA National Technology Policy Roundtable
Gearing Up the Technology Engine at the Community Level
CATA and the Economic Council of Canada
SO2 Emissions from the Sudbury Basin and Control Options
(co-author), Energy Mines and Resources
The Use of Advanced Materials in the Automotive Industry
Energy Mines and Resources