Title: The Glomos
Subtitle: Nested Global Ecoregions for Representative and Sustainable Living
Subject Classification:  Sustainability, Politics and Government, Society and Culture  
BIC Classification: JF, RB, JP
BISAC Classification: POL033000, SOC042000, BUS072000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Feb 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-394-1
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-395-8

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Description

This innovative new book looks at the world’s problems and challenges as a series of ‘Global Modules’ – what the authors call ‘The Glomos’ – and propose how they can be addressed.

The book points to three interactive globally-shared problems reaching a crescendo toward civilizational collapse: expanding environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in all lands and oceans, rural depopulation and urban slums, and declines in democracy provoked by technocracy. The Glomos approach seeks to reverse these global problems and create sustainability, full regional representation, and checks and balances against technocracy.

The power of distributed media can be used, for the first time in history, to communicate both regionally and globally, simultaneously with each other about these concerns.

The authors suggest practical steps to start the Glomos, starting from the bottom up, from small to big. We now have the power, the communications, and the great sustainable materials and technologies to make the sustainable and representative civilization that we deserve, regionally and globally. We only have to organize these into nested arrangements that maintain and encourage each other.

This book will be of interest to any researcher or student considering global futures and sustainability.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr. Mark D. Whitaker (PhD, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) is a Research Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Michael U. Baumgartner (Master’s, Social Work, Alice-Salomon-Fachhochschule, Berlin, Germany) is an adult educator and co-director of Lernort Sozialgestaltung Bern, Switzerland, focusing on social design, governance, and development practice. He is board member of New Start Switzerland (Neustart Schweiz).

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