The Future of Sustainability
Gebonden Engels 2006 2006e druk 9781402047343Samenvatting
This book presents a broad discussion on sustainable development, rethinking and improving its effectiveness as a paradigm of today and tomorrow. Outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists offer their timely assessment on the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading? How can the world become more just and equitable, and how can future development be sustained to adequately address economic, social, and – perhaps most important – environmental issues?
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Inhoudsopgave
Sustainability—Quo Vadis?.- Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment—2006; Albert A. Bartlett.- Sustainable Development—Definitions, Principles, Policies; Herman E. Daly.- Sustainability is Not Enough; Peter Marcuse.-
Challenges to Sustainable Development.- Sustainable Development and Urbanization; Marios Camhis.- Sustainable Economies—Local or Global?; Helena Norberg-Hodge.- Business and Human Rights; Klaus M. Leisinger.-
New approaches.- A New Glasnost for Global Sustainability; Mikhail Gorbachev.- Tools for the Transition to Sustainability; Dennis L. Meadows.- ‘Factor Four’ and Sustainable Development in the Age of Globalization; Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.- Ecological Footprint Accounting—Comparing Earth’s Biological Capacity with an Economy’s Resource Demand; Mathis Wackernagel.- Advancing Sustainable Development and its Implementation Through Spatial Planning; Marco Keiner.- Sustainability is Dead—Long Live Sustainability; Alan AtKisson.-
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