Building Sustainable Societies: A Blueprint for a Post-industrial World

A Blueprint for a Post-industrial World

Dennis Clark Pirages (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

372 Seiten

1996
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56324-739-2 (ISBN)

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A collection of articles addressing the issue of whether the industrial model of human progress can be sustained in the long term. It asks what the social, political, economic and environmental implications as well as potential solutions to the problem of resource-intensive growth are.

Dennis Clark Pirages

Introduction; One: Designing Sustainable Societies: Values and Institutions; 1: Peace, Justice, and Sustainability; 2: Unsustainable Liberty, Sustainable Freedom; 3: Sustainability's Five Capitals and Three Pillars; 4: Sustainability and the System Problem; Two: The Changing Global Context; 5: Trade Policy: Clouds in the Vision of Sustainability; 6: International Treaties for Sustainability: Is the Montreal Protocol a Useful Model?; 7: Transparent Sovereignty; 8: War, Weapons, and Sustainability in the Post-Cold Era; Three: Sustainable Development and North–South Issues; 9: Toward a Sustainable Global Population; 10: Physical Growth versus Technological Development: Odds in the Sustainability Race; 11: Barriers to a Sustainable China; 12: Authentic Development: Is it Sustainable?; 13: Involving Women in Sustainable Development: Livelihoods and Conservation; 14: North–South Cooperation for Sustainability; Four: Challenges of Transition; 15: Corporations as Agents for a Sustainable Society; 16: World Food Problems: Making the Transition from Agriculture to Regenerative Food Systems; 17: Becoming Sustainable: Changing the Way We Think; 18: Infoglut and Competing Problems: Key Barriers Suggesting a New Strategy for Sustainability; 19: Norway: Progress Toward Sustainability?; 20: Measuring Sustainability: Indicators, Trends, and Performance

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.1996
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-56324-739-9 / 1563247399
ISBN-13	978-1-56324-739-2 / 9781563247392
Zustand	Neuware