Cents and sustainability : securing our common future by decoupling economic growth from environmental pressures /

Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'. The Brundtland Report argued that not only was it achiev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Michael H., 1969-
Otros Autores: Hargroves, Karlson, 1974-, Desha, Cheryl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
Colección:Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central.
Temas:
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects.
Climatic changes.
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Environmental policy.
Economic policy.
Développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement.
Climat > Changements > Aspect économique.
Climat > Changements.
Gaz à effet de serre > Réduction.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale.
Politique économique.
climate change.
environmental policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects
Climatic changes
Economic development > Environmental aspects
Economic policy
Environmental policy
Greenhouse gas mitigation
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Securing "our common future"
  • Achieving economic growth and reducing environmental pressures
  • Factors that can undermine or even block efforts to achieve decoupling
  • Factors that affect poorer nations' ability to achieve decoupling
  • Informing and developing national strategies for decoupling
  • Responding to the complexity of climate change
  • Decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions
  • Decoupling economic growth from loss of biodiversity and exosystem resilience
  • Decoupling economic growth from freshwater extraction
  • Decoupling economic growth from waste production
  • Decoupling economic growth from air pollution
  • Reducing air pollution through public interest litigation : the Delhi pollution case.

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