Sustainable development : the challenge of transition [E-Book] / edited by Jurgen Schmandt and C.H. Ward with the assistance of Marilu Hastings.
Sustainable development : the challenge of transition [E-Book] / edited by Jurgen Schmandt and C.H. Ward with the assistance of Marilu Hastings.
Demographers predict that world population will double to around twelve billion people during the first half of the twenty-first century and then begin to level off. Based on this scenario, Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Transition examines what societal changes must occur over the next g...
| Personal Name(s): | Schmandt, Jurgen, (editor) |
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| Ward, C. H., (editor) | |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2000
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 223 pages) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9780511536021 9780521153294 9780521653053 |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Bruce Alberts
- Preface / C.H. Ward and Jurgen Schmandt
- Challenge and response / Jurgen Schmandt and C.H. Ward
- National self-interest in the pursuit of sustainable development / Malcolm Gillis and Jeffrey R. Vincent
- Uneconomic growth: empty-world versus full-world economics / Herman E. Daly
- Population and consumption: from more to enough / Robert W. Kates
- Spirituality and sustainability / Carla V. Berkedal
- Leadership skills for sustainable development / Bruce W. Piasecki
- The role of science: guidance and service / Stephen H. Schneider
- Economic tools, international trade, and the role of business / Francis Cairncross
- Stakeholders and sustainable development / James B. Blackburn
- From idea to action: the role of policy / Jurgen Schmandt.