Handbook for a Sustainable Economy

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bermejo, Roberto (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Renewable energy resources.; Mineral resources.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Social work.; Metals.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Sustainable Development.; Mineral Resources.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Metallic Materials.; Social Work.

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 t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.