Giovanni Rantucci

The Global Environmental Crisis: a Global Perspective for a Sustainable Future and a Non-exclusive Proposal to the European Union Giovanni Rantucci

Publisher Marketing: The social, political and economic transition from 3.8 billion people in 1970 to 7 billion in 2011 and most probably 8 in 2025, represents a new phase in human history. Great changes are expected to occurr in the next two decades and radical decisions are to be taken accordingly: humanity is currently confronted with huge environmental impacts, the further deterioration of climate and the decline of biodiversity. To these phenomena, which have already occurred in the past, are now associted risks such as the decreasing hospitability of the biosphere, the on going financial ed economic global crisis, the growing divide between rich and poor and the fact that future generations are being deprived of non renewable resources we are delpleting at unprecedented speed. Either we react to the decline of the environment and society through scientific progress, an efficient democracy and the initiation of a sustainable development process, or we will all be involved in local and regional conflicts and affected by widespread global instability. The book "The Global Environmental Crisis," A global perspective for a sustainable future and a non-exclusive proposal to the European Union (2012), illustrates the climate change triggered by human activities and a society not ready yet for a well-timed transition. The Author's proposal is based on a long-term Sustainable Development Process (SPD) coordinated by the United Nations, and a short term Reference Transition Model (RTM) that big Nations, and the European Union first, should carry on for a way out of the current emergency. Around twenty copies of the book "The Global Environmental Crisis" have been donated to the European Union Authorities and some Member Countries, and to the Secretary General of the United Nations in the hope that action is taken before it is too late, before climate change starts driving the game. Contributor Bio:  Rantucci, Giovanni Giovanni Rantucci received his Degree in Geology in 1964, his career started in 1967 in Croydon (UK) as a geophysicist in the evaluation of seismic refraction field data. From 1968 to 1982 he worked in developing countries as a geotechnical expert in the design and rehabilitation of roads. In the period 1983-1989 he served as Associate Professor in the Division of Geotechnical Engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok in a project financed by the Italian Cooperation, through the UNDP. During an assignment as a consultant in Central Luzon (Philippines) he witnessed the devastating effects of the July 1990 Luzon Earthquake, the June 1991 eruption of Pinatubo and the related primary and secondary effects. From 1992 2002 he worked under the Italian Cooperation (Central Technical Unit) in Rome in evaluation and financing of projects in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. In 1994 he wrote the book "Geological Disasters in the Philippines," in 1995, soon after the January earthquake he visited Kobe and Osaka in Japan and co-authored " Il Terrmoto di Kobe" (in Italian) and retired in 2002. His latest book "The Global Environmental Crisis" will be distributed by Amazon in July 2012.