Dennis Clark Pirages

Building Sustainable Societies: A Blueprint for a Post-industrial World (eBook, ePUB)

A Blueprint for a Post-industrial World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of articles addressing the issue of whether the industrial model of human progress can be sustained in the long term. It asks what the social, political, economic and environmental implications as well as potential solutions to the problem of resource-intensive growth are.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315285436
• Artikelnr.: 49351707

Autorenporträt

Dennis Clark Pirages

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
One: Designing Sustainable Societies: Values and Institutions
1: Peace, Justice, and Sustainability
2: Unsustainable Liberty, Sustainable Freedom
3: Sustainability's Five Capitals and Three Pillars
4: Sustainability and the System Problem
Two: The Changing Global Context
5: Trade Policy: Clouds in the Vision of Sustainability
6: International Treaties for Sustainability: Is the Montreal Protocol a Useful Model?
7: Transparent Sovereignty
8: War, Weapons, and Sustainability in the Post-Cold Era
Three: Sustainable Development and North-South Issues
9: Toward a Sustainable Global Population
10: Physical Growth versus Technological Development: Odds in the Sustainability Race
11: Barriers to a Sustainable China
12: Authentic Development: Is it Sustainable?
13: Involving Women in Sustainable Development: Livelihoods and Conservation
14: North-South Cooperation for Sustainability
Four: Challenges of Transition
15: Corporations as Agents for a Sustainable Society
16: World Food Problems: Making the Transition from Agriculture to Regenerative Food Systems
17: Becoming Sustainable: Changing the Way We Think
18: Infoglut and Competing Problems: Key Barriers Suggesting a New Strategy for Sustainability
19: Norway: Progress Toward Sustainability?
20: Measuring Sustainability: Indicators, Trends, and Performance