Table of Contents

Part One - The Enemy is Ecological Decline 

            Chapter 1: A Shift in the Angle of Vision 
            Chapter 2: Provisioning Societies                                 
                             A. How Much Natural Capital Does It Take to Make A Cup of Coffee?             
                             B. Organizing to Provision Societies
                             C. Third World Jobs, Natural capital and the Global Economy  

Part Two - From Common Genes to the Global Economy
            Chapter 3:  Round One - The Spread of Hunter-Gather Societies
            Chapter 4:  Round Two - The Rise and Spread of Agricultural Societies             
            Chapter 5:  Round Three - Urbanization                                                                 
                              A. Provisioning Cities: From Ur to the Fall of Rome
                              B. Provisioning Cities: From Feudalism to the Information Age
            Chapter 6:  Round Four: From City States to Nations
                              A. The Rise and Spread of Nation States 
                              B. Cities, Nations and the Global Economy   
                              C. The Rise of the Environmental Movement
            Chapter 7:  Round Five - Reliance on Global Business Networks
                              A. Private Sector Initiative during the First Four Rounds of Provisioning        
                              B. The Rise of MNEs                                                                                         
                              C. Cultural Change and the Peace Dividend  
            Chapter 8: The Organization and Potential of the Global Economy  
                              A. Provisioning Societies in the Global Economy                                             
                              B. It Works!
                              C. The World is Poised for Continued Growth                                                   
                              D. Technology Futures                                                                                        
                              E. Competing For Space on the Rungs of the Technology Ladder                     

 Part Three - The 25 Year Challenge to Growth and sOCIAL sTABILITY
            Chapter 9:  From Egalitarian Tribes to Global Inequity
                              A. Feed-back Loops and “Flips”             
                                        i.  Malthus revisited?
                              B. A Brief History of Income Inequity and Natural Capital Flows
                              C The Global Economy and Income Distribution 
                              D. The Coming Challenge of Global Poverty 
                                        i. Provisioning bi-polar cities
                              E. Wealth, Poverty and the 5 Rounds of Provisioning
            Chapter 10: Ecological Roadblocks to Growth and Poverty Reduction                 
                               A. The Signs of Ecological Overshoot                                                                
                               B. The Compounding Effects of Climate Change                                                      
                               C. Feeding the World                                
                               D. The Story of the Global Fishery                                                                     
                               E. Why Market Mechanisms Do Not Prevent Ecological Decline                     
            Chapter 11: The Catalysts of Calamity
                              A. Globalization, Tribes, Cities, Nations and Civilizations                                 
                              B. Ecological Scarcity and Social Violence                                                        
                              C. The Road Ahead                                                                             

Part Four - The War Against Ecological Decline  
            Chapter 12: Our Common Enemy  
                              A. The Battlefields of Technological Innovation
                              B. From Skirmishes to All-Out War  
            Chapter 13: Mobilizing Nations For War                           
                              A. The Battle for Industrial Ecology
                              B. The Battles for Integrated Bio-Region and Eco-Urban Management  
            Chapter 14: Mobilizing the International Community  
                              A. The Framework Convention on Provisioning (the FCP)
                                        i. The International Declaration of War
                                        ii. The Global Battle Plan
                                                  - the international maintenance of ecosystem viability
                                                  - ecosystem monitoring and preparedness
                                                  - programs to develop sustainable technologies and management systems
                                                  - managing conflicts over natural capital (the EDRM)
            Chapter 15: Round Six: The Age of Global Provisioning
                              A. Seeing the Enemy                                                                                            
                              B. Choosing Our Wars
                              C. The World Summit on Global Provisioning                                           

Notes       

Bibliography