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Growth Without Ecodisasters
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Author : Nicholas Polunin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-30
Growth Without Ecodisasters written by Nicholas Polunin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-30 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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Author : Nicholas Polunin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Growth Without Ecodisasters written by Nicholas Polunin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Ecology categories.
Managing Without Growth
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Author : Peter A. Victor
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Managing Without Growth written by Peter A. Victor and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Managing Without Growth offers a compelling argument for the need for a new policy focus in the rich nations. Peter Victor argues that it is time for our obsession with economic growth to end. A new focus on human well-being must replace our more is better philosophy. Brett Dolter, Briarpatch Magazine Peter Victor clearly presents the arguments as to why already relatively rich countries may have to manage low or no growth in their economies if they wish to address rather than continue contributing to global environmental problems. His modelling suggests that managing without growth need not be the economic disaster that is so often assumed. This is a lucid book that provides an excellent introduction to this important but neglected area. Paul Ekins, King's College London, UK At last, Managing Without Growth, a book that puts economics in its proper place within the real world and points the direction we must go in confronting the ecological crisis of the planet. As an economist, environmental studies professor Peter Victor is eminently qualified for the task. He examines some of our most fundamental assumptions and beliefs about the market, pricing, free trade and growth, prosperity and happiness that too often preclude a serious consideration of the environment and economy. His book couldn t be a more timely and important analysis of the destructive consequences of aspiring to endless growth and downloading the costs onto nature itself. He makes a powerful case for the need to work deliberately towards a steady state economy where the real world of the biosphere should set the limits to our activity. Victor s book should be at the basis for our discussion of these critical issues today. David Suzuki, broadcaster and activist Peter Victor analyses the critical policy question of our time, how to manage our economy equitably and efficiently without growing beyond biophysical limits. He reasons carefully and rigorously, yet pulls no punches in drawing conclusions that some will consider radical. A superb book! Herman E. Daly, University of Maryland, US Overcoming our addiction to economic growth is one of the most important challenges for the 21st century. Peter Victor s masterful summary of the history and fallacies of this particularly pervasive and increasingly dangerous addiction will be a great help in getting over it. A sustainable and desirable future requires clearly differentiating between bigger and better and a recognition that in the overdeveloped West these two have parted ways. Peter Victor s book will help us slow down by design, not disaster, and understand how that slowing down will in fact increase our quality of life. Robert Costanza, The University of Vermont, US Peter Victor s book is a carefully crafted argument for managing without growth . It is not only an up-to-date survey of the latest thinking on energy, climate, and population, it offers practical policy responses to these challenges. This book is a must read for academics and policymakers concerned with environmental integrity and human wellbeing. John Gowdy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US Peter Victor challenges the priority that rich countries continue to give to economic growth as an over-arching objective of economic policy. The challenge is based on a critical analysis of the literature on environmental and resource limits to growth, on the disconnect between higher incomes and happiness, and on the failure of economic growth to meet other key economic, social and environmental policy objectives. Shortly after World War II, economic growth became the paramount economic policy objective in most countries, a position that it maintains today. This book presents three arguments on why rich countries should turn away from economic growth as the primary policy objective and pursue more specific objectives that enhance wellbeing. The author contends that continued economic growth worldwide is unrealistic due to environmental and
Too Smart For Our Own Good
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Author : Craig Dilworth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010
Too Smart For Our Own Good written by Craig Dilworth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
A groundbreaking work explaining our ecological predicament in the context of the first scientific theory of humankind's development.
Inventory Of Federal Energy Related Environment And Safety Research For
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Inventory Of Federal Energy Related Environment And Safety Research For written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Environmental engineering categories.
Inventory Of Federal Energy Related Environment And Safety Research For Fy 1977
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Author : United States. Department of Energy. Environmental Impacts Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Inventory Of Federal Energy Related Environment And Safety Research For Fy 1977 written by United States. Department of Energy. Environmental Impacts Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Environmental engineering categories.
Between Two Worlds
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Author : Lynton Keith Caldwell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-23
Between Two Worlds written by Lynton Keith Caldwell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-23 with Nature categories.
The focus of this book is on changes in the human situation wrought by unprecedented changes in science-based technology and expanding populations. Increasing scientific information concerning these changes and their consequences is beginning to alter people's perceptions, thus providing a rational basis for a worldwide environmental movement. This movement - complex and differentiated - works through political and educational means to establish new social priorities consistent with scientific findings and the sustainability of life on Earth. The success of this effort would signify a new phase of social development. The thesis of this book is that human-made changes in the condition of the Earth, accompanied by the changing attitudes and values implicit in the environmental movement, constitute an historical discontinuity. The present era represents a transition between the assumptions and conditions that have hitherto characterized the modern world, and those of the post-modern world that is emerging. Science and technology, so vividly symbolized in the view from outer space, are fundamentally changing our traditional beliefs about human opportunities and limitations - and these changes are slowly being reflected in international policies and laws. If humanity today succeeds in establishing a sustainable relationship to Earth, a higher level of civilisation will have been achieved. This thought-provoking view will interest students and professionals in the science and politics of the environment.
Global Bioethics
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Author : Van Rensselaer Potter
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Global Bioethics written by Van Rensselaer Potter and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Van Rensselaer Potter created and defined the term "bioethics" in 1970, to describe a new philosophy that sought to integrate biology, ecology, medicine, and human values. Bioethics is often linked to environmental ethics and stands in sharp contrast to biomedical ethics. Because of this confusion (and appropriation of the term in medicine), Potter chose to use the term "Global Bioethics" in 1988. Potter's definition of bioethics from Global Bioethics is, "Biology combined with diverse humanistic knowledge forging a science that sets a system of medical and environmental priorities for acceptable survival."
Towards The Biosphere Reserve
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Author : Clifford J. Martinka
language : en
Publisher: [Washington?] : The Service
Release Date : 1983
Towards The Biosphere Reserve written by Clifford J. Martinka and has been published by [Washington?] : The Service this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biosphere categories.