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  title info:
    title: Handbook for a Sustainable Economy
  name:
    name part: Bermejo, Roberto.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 400 p. 78 illus., 63 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Since the 1992 World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity, the looming prospect of Earth’s changing climate has inspired a broad movement dedicated to a sustainable future. In this Handbook, the author explains the elements of a sustainable economy, the development of which must be undertaken if we are to retain our civilization. The first section offers a critical analysis of orthodox economical thinking, and the tools used by the conventional economy to solve the “environmental problem.” The author examines the theory and tools of Environmental Economics addressing the commodification of nature, and offers analysis of the theoretical and practical contradictions which arise from attempts to combine environmental protection and free trade. Part II discusses the principles and tools needed to build a sustainable economy, including the concept of biomimicry as a guiding principle of sustainability, a brief description of the adaptive cycle of ecosystems, and explains the concept of transformability and the factors that determine it. Discussion includes a broad evaluation of the capacity for transformation of National Sustainable Development Strategies, and an analysis of the essential requirements of ecology-based tax reform. Also included is a critical vision of the dominant paradigm of science and technology. The third section explores sustainable production and consumption, discussing energy, transport, the circular economy of materials, and sustainable consumption. Included are a detailed analysis of factors that determine the limits of fossil fuels, a description of the peak oil structural effect and its sectoral impacts, an overview of a sustainable electric system, and a review of biofuels, electricity and hydrogen. The author concludes that only hydrogen associated to fuel offers a sustainable alternative to oil. Discussion includes a view of the structural causes of the current high-level consumption model through the lens of motivation, provision and access syst…
  table of contents: Part I Critical review of the orthodox economy -- 1 paradigms -- 2 the commodification of nature and its consequences -- 3 Foundations and instruments of environmental economics -- 4 Free market and sustainability -- 5 Sustainable development in the Brundtland report and its distortion -- Part II Principles and instruments for sustainability -- 6 Sustainability of social-economical systems -- 7 Sustainability -- 8 Instruments for sustainability: strategic planning and ecological tax reform -- 9 Science and technology for sustainability -- Part III Sustainable production and consumption -- 10 The limits of fossil fuels -- 11 Repercussions of the end of the oil age -- 12 Towards sustainable transport at the end of the fossil fuels era -- 13 Solar economy elements -- 14 Renewable hydrogen economy -- 15 Societies in energy emergency -- 16 Circular economy -- 17 Industrial ecology -- 18 Basis for an eco-effective and integrated product strategy -- 19 Sustainable consumption -- Part IV Evaluation of transformability -- 20 Overall evaluation of transformability and its trend.
  note: by Roberto Bermejo.
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy resources
  subject:
    topic: Mineral resources
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Alternate energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Green energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Metals
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Mineral Resources
  subject:
    topic: Renewable and Green Energy
  subject:
    topic: Metallic Materials
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  classification: HC79.E5
  classification: 333.7
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      title: Springer eBooks
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