Our Common Environment and Globalization – Shadows and Hopes

Faragó, Tibor (2024) Our Common Environment and Globalization – Shadows and Hopes. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. ISBN 9789636640750

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Abstract

Globalization has had significant and severe impacts on the Earth’s environment, which is the common home of all human societies, and on which state and resources the life and the well-being of present and future generations depend. This book is devoted to the analysis of the evolution of this globalization process, its drivers and dangerous consequences, and the development of international environmental scientific and policy cooperation. * * * Dr. László Horváth: The global environmental changes have been the focus of scientific research activities both in the past and present. The current harmful human-induced processes, their cause-effect relations, and their potential future hazardous consequences (insofar as these remain unabated) are known with more or less accuracy. Tibor Faragó has written this comprehensive book based on his environmental science and policy knowledge and experience obtained in this field in recent decades, as well as his participation in numerous international forums. As he notes concerning these large-scale problems, “the ‘world’ of scientists and the ‘world’ of policymakers have been represented prominently in all such cases, but often with rather limited knowledge and understanding of each other. However, this situation has gradually changed.” Nevertheless, there are still considerable gaps in this science-policy interface, and this book may go a long way toward filling that gap. * * * Prof. Dr. Sándor Kerekes: This is an exciting and special book to be worth reading even for someone who had read many books on the subject. The author knows this subject from the inside, having been involved in the work of several international organizations, and also from personal experience as he was not only an observer but also a shaper and participant. The book is a synthesis of all that science has explored and represented on the subject over the last seventy to eighty years, on the basis of which international organizations have drawn up goals and action plans. In this context, the author explores the genesis of globalizing environmental problems from its inception to its perceived or real solution. The author also effectively helps uncover hazards that are not yet well understood and gives readers the necessary ‘hope’ that if we are willing to change, we can escape the trap associated with global problems. I recommend this book with professional conviction and sincere pleasure.

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