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Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth Future Prospects for World Civilization /
It is over 15 years since Agenda 21 was adopted in Rio de Janeiro, and over 100 countries have now espoused this code to use sustainable development as a means of avoiding an ecological catastrophe. However it is obvious that, even with this commitment, there is still a significant lack of both unde...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | Environmental Sciences,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Civilization in crisis: On the edge of an abyss
- Global ecological situation
- Critically overpopulated planet
- The ecological equivalents of modern man
- Civilization teetering over the abyss of crisis (conclusion)
- The social dimension of the crisis
- The role of centralized and market economies
- The crisis of values as the main cause of the ecological challenge
- The world community: Politicians and scientists in search of a solution
- The mission of the Club of Rome
- Programs for change: Stockholm-Rio-Johannesburg
- Toward a systemic understanding of the biosphere
- The constancy of the planetary environment in light of the biotic regulation mechanism
- Sustainable development: Between complacency and reality
- The basis of sustainability in nature and in civilization
- The national colors of sustainable development
- Co-evolution of nature and society: Fact or fiction?
- On the scale of a scientific approach
- Sustainable development in relation to the carrying capacity of the biosphere
- The starting conditions of sustainable development and the preservation of ecosystems by country and continent
- Navigation directions: Indicators of sustainable development
- "Is there enough community, responsibility, discipline and love?" (Meadows et al., 1992)
- The barricades of old thinking in the way of sustainable development
- What the market economy can and cannot accomplish
- Sustainable development and the "real human condition"
- The social premises of sustainable development and the globalization problem.