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Our planet : how much more can Earth take? /
From the Publisher: This accessible and readable introduction to the Sustainability Project quickly became a project upon which six authors collaborated. They brought together the accumulated knowledge of researchers from the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), who are versed in global env...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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London :
Haus,
2008.
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| Colección: | Sustainability project (London, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editor's foreword
- Author's foreword
- Introduction
- 1: Global Change
- Population growth
- Economic activities
- Thresholds
- Earth as a system
- First scientific warnings
- First actions
- Air pollution
- Depletion of stratospheric ozone
- Call for sustainable development
- UN conference on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro
- Millennium development goals
- Johannesburg Summit 2002
- What has been achieved?
- Poverty continues to grow
- Resource consumption still increasing
- Summary
- 2: Earth System
- What is a system?
- Simple systems
- Complex systems
- Complex Earth system
- DPSIR-a framework for describing the environmental impact of our activities
- Climate change
- Lake Victoria perch story
- Dam in Ghana
- Summary: systemic approaches
- 3: Resource Use-We're Living Beyond Our Means
- Humans are part of nature
- How we use nature: facts and figures
- Modern cities' hunger for resources
- Rich against the poor: unequal distribution of natural resource use
- Global resource consumption in the future
- How efficiently do we use natural resources?
- Driving forces of current developments
- Global resource justice
- 4: Visions Of A Sustainable Future
- Efficiency strategy
- Examples of material-efficient production
- Sufficiency strategy
- More affluence does not always mean more happiness
- Paid labor and happiness
- Holistic view of labor: mixed work
- How realistic is the vision of a sustainable society?
- 5: Paths Towards Sustainability
- From environmental policy to resource policy
- New environmental policy: prevention, not cure
- New economic policy
- Education and support
- Voluntary agreements
- Right mix
- Fair play in the global economy
- Power of sufficiency
- Policy-level implementation
- Individual-level implementation
- Suggestions for a sustainable lifestyle
- Glossary
- References.