Wayne Visser

The Top 50 Sustainability Books (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Profiles the best 50 books on sustainability and many of their reflections on the state of the world. This title provides devastating evidence of the problems we face as a global society, yet also inspiring examples of innovative solutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351279062
• Artikelnr.: 68423500

Autorenporträt

Visser, Wayne

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPolly Courtice, Director, Cambridge for Sustainability
Leadership 1. A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold (1949) 2. Silent Spring
Rachel Carson (1962) 3. Unsafe At Any Speed Ralph Nader (1965) 4. The
Population Bomb Paul L. Ehrlich (1968) 5. Operating Manual for Spaceship
Earth R. Buckminster Fuller (1969) 6. The Limits to Growth Donella H.
Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William W. Behrens III
(1972) 7. Small Is Beautiful E.F. Schumacher (1973) 8. Gaia James Lovelock
(1979) 9. The Turning Point Fritjof Capra (1982) 10. Our Common Future
('The Brundtland Report') World Commission onEnvironment and Development
(1987) 11. The Dream of the Earth Thomas Berry (1988) 12. A Fate Worse Than
Debt Susan George (1988) 13. Staying Alive Vandana Shiva (1989) 14.
Blueprint for a Green Economy David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B.
Barbier (1989) 15. For the Common Good Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr
(1989) 16. Human Scale Development Manfred Max-Neef (1989) 17. Changing
Course Stephan Schmidheiny and Business Council for Sustainable Development
(BCSD) (1992) 18. The Ecology of Commerce Paul Hawken (1993) 19. Maverick
Ricardo Semler (1993) 20. When Corporations Rule the World David C. Korten
(1995 )21. Biomimicry Janine M. Benyus (1997) 22. Cannibals with Forks John
Elkington (1997) 23. The Hungry Spirit Charles Handy (1997) 24. Banker to
the Poor Muhammad Yunus (1998) 25. The Crisis of Global Capitalism George
Soros (1998) 26. Factor Four Ernst von Weizsaecker, Amory B. Lovins and L.
Hunter Lovins (1998) 27. False Dawn John Gray (1998) 28. Development as
Freedom Amartya Sen (1999) 29. No Logo Naomi Klein (1999) 30. Natural
Capitalism Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1999) 31.
Business as Unusual Anita Roddick (2000) 32. The Mystery of Capital
Hernando de Soto (2000) 33. The Civil Corporation Simon Zadek (2001) 34.
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser (2001) 35. The Skeptical Environmentalist
Bjorn Lomborg (2001) 36. Cradle to Cradle William McDonough and Michael
Braungart (2002) 37. Globalization and its Discontents Joseph E. Stiglitz
(2002) 38. The Corporation Joel Bakan (2004) 39. Presence Peter Senge, C.
Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers (2004) 40. The Fortune
at the Bottom of the Pyramid C.K. Prahalad (2004) 41. The River Runs Black
Elizabeth C. Economy (2004) 42. Capitalism as if the World Matters Jonathon
Porritt (2005) 43. Capitalism at the Crossroads Stuart L. Hart (2005) 44.
Collapse Jared Diamond (2005) 45. The End of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs
(2005) 46. The Chaos Point Ervin Laszlo (2006) 47. Heat George Monbiot
(2006) 48. An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore (2006) 49. When the Rivers Run Dry
Fred Pearce (2006) 50. The Economics of Climate Change Nicholas Stern
(2007)ConclusionMike Peirce, Deputy Director, Cambridge for Sustainability
Leadership