Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth Future Prospects for World Civilization /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Danilov-Danil’yan, Victor I. (Συγγραφέας), Losev, Kim S. (Συγγραφέας), Reyf, Igor E. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: Environment.; Climate change.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Management.; Climate Change.; Environment, general.; Environmental Economics.

It is over 15 years since Agenda 21 was adopted in Rio de Janeiro, and over 100 countries have now espoused this code to use sustainable development as a means of avoiding an ecological catastrophe. However it is obvious that, even with this commitment, there is still a significant lack of both unde...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Civilization in crisis: On the edge of an abyss
• Global ecological situation
• Critically overpopulated planet
• The ecological equivalents of modern man
• Civilization teetering over the abyss of crisis (conclusion)
• The social dimension of the crisis
• The role of centralized and market economies
• The crisis of values as the main cause of the ecological challenge
• The world community: Politicians and scientists in search of a solution
• The mission of the Club of Rome
• Programs for change: Stockholm—Rio—Johannesburg
• Toward a systemic understanding of the biosphere
• The constancy of the planetary environment in light of the biotic regulation mechanism
• Sustainable development: Between complacency and reality
• The basis of sustainability in nature and in civilization
• The national colors of sustainable development
• Co-evolution of nature and society: Fact or fiction?
• On the scale of a scientific approach
• Sustainable development in relation to the carrying capacity of the biosphere
• The starting conditions of sustainable development and the preservation of ecosystems by country and continent
• Navigation directions: Indicators of sustainable development
• “Is there enough community, responsibility, discipline and love?” (Meadows et al., 1992)
• The barricades of old thinking in the way of sustainable development
• What the market economy can and cannot accomplish
• Sustainable development and the “real human condition”
• The social premises of sustainable development and the globalization problem.