The real environmental crisis : why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemy /

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Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the worl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hollander, Jack M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Poverty.
Sustainable development.
Environmental degradation > Economic aspects.
Environmental policy > Economic aspects.
Poverty
Pauvreté.
Développement durable.
Environnement > Dégradation > Aspect économique.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect économique.
poverty.
sustainable development.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmental degradation > Economic aspects
Environmental policy > Economic aspects
Sustainable development
Aspect économique.
Politique gouvernementale.
Politique environnementale.
Dégradation de l'environnement.
Pauvreté
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: A Crisis of Pessimism; 1. A WORLD APART; 2. SIX BILLION AND COUNTING; 3. CAN THE EARTH FEED EVERYONE?; 4. FISH TALES; 5. IS THE EARTH WARMING?; 6. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE; 7. THE AIR WE BREATHE; 8. FOSSIL FUELS
  • CULPRIT OR GENIE?; 9. SOLAR POWER TO THE PEOPLE; 10. NUKES TO THE RESCUE?; 11. WHEELS; 12. DON'T HARM THE PATIENT; 13. CHOICES; NOTES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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