Format:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415690430
,
9781135097394
Series Statement:
Global Institutions Series
Content:
The book provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development
Note:
Front Cover -- Crisis of Global Sustainability -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The birth and evolution of the Club of Rome: Early identification of a global crisis -- 2. A new way of thinking: The MIT study The Limits to Growth -- 3. How have the concepts and doctrines of sustainability changed? -- 4. Intergovernmental action 1972-2012: From Stockholm to Rio plus 20 -- 5. Planetary boundaries: Doomsday prophecies or scientific projections? -- 6. A crisis of institutions: How to manage our interconnected future -- 7. Overcoming the crisis of mind and action: Creating new institutions and strategies for a global emergency -- 8. The future: Thinking big about global institutions and world governance -- 9. Epilogue: What should be done? -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Routledge Global Institutions Series
Additional Edition:
Print version Kanninen, Tapio Crisis of Global Sustainability Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415690430
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
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