From resource scarcity to ecological security : exploring new limits to growth /

From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of The Global 2000 Report to the President--commissioned by President Jimmy Carter in 1977--and presents an up-to-date overview, informed by the earlier projections, of such critical topics as population, water, food, energy, climat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pirages, Dennis, Cousins, Ken, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Colección:Global environmental accords.
Temas:
Global 2000 Study (U.S.)
Environmental policy.
Twenty-first century > Forecasts.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale.
Vingt et unième siècle > Prévisions.
environmental policy.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Environmental policy
Twenty-first century
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
ENVIRONMENT/General
Forecasts
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From limits to growth to ecological security / Dennis Pirages
  • The future is not what it used to be : world population trends / Robert Engelman [and others]
  • Reflections on an aging global population / Paul J. Runci and Chester L. Cooper
  • Global water prospects / Ken Conca
  • Food policy : underfed or overfed? / Marc J. Cohen
  • Energy, security, and cooperation over the next quarter century / Heather Conley and Warren Phillips
  • Renewable-energy technologies / Gary Cook and Eldon Boes
  • Future socioeconomic and political challenges of global climate change / Matthias Ruth
  • Global climate change : policy challenges, policy responses / Jacob Park
  • Forest degradation, the timber trade, and tropical-region plantations / Patricia Marchak
  • Biodiversity and ecological security / David W. Inouye
  • Twenty-nine days : responding to a finite world / Ken Cousins.

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