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almahu_9948265240802882
Format:
1 online resource (584 p.)
ISBN:
9781783473564 (e-book)
Content:
This Handbook assembles new contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees, Peter Bartelmus, Tim Jackson and more, who have helped to define our understanding of growth and sustainability. It also presents new thinking on topics such as degrowth, the debt-based financial system, cultural change, energy return on investment, shorter working hours and employment, and innovation and technology. Explorations of these issues can deepen our understanding of whether growth is sustainable and, in turn, whether a move away from growth can be sustained. With issues such as climate change looming large, our understanding of growth and sustainability is critical. This Handbook offers a broad range of perspectives that can help the reader to decide: Growth? Sustainability? Both? Or neither? Contributions are drawn from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, engineering and journalism, placing the work of established luminaries alongside emerging scholars who offer fresh new perspectives. A special section dedicated to exploring 'growth imperatives' that make transitioning away from economic growth difficult is provided, and the book includes a focus on cultural change and economic growth. Scholars, students and practitioners interested in ecological economics, sustainability and environmental studies will all find much of value in this multifaceted and comprehensive volume. This Handbook assembles new contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees, Peter Bartelmus, Tim Jackson and more, who have helped to define our understanding of growth and sustainability. It also presents new thinking on topics such as degrowth, the debt-based financial system, cultural change, energy return on investment, shorter working hours and employment, and innovation and technology. Explorations of these issues can deepen our understanding of whether growth is sustainable and, in turn, whether a move away from growth can be sustained. With issues such as climate change looming large, our understanding of growth and sustainability is critical. This Handbook offers a broad range of perspectives that can help the reader to decide: Growth? Sustainability? Both? Or neither? Contributions are drawn from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, engineering and journalism, placing the work of established luminaries alongside emerging scholars who offer fresh new perspectives. A special section dedicated to exploring 'growth imperatives' that make transitioning away from economic growth difficult is provided, and the book includes a focus on cultural change and economic growth. Scholars, students and practitioners interested in ecological economics, sustainability and environmental studies will all find much of value in this multifaceted and comprehensive volume.
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Includes index.
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Contents: 1. from growth to sustainability / Brett Dolter and Peter A. Victor -- 2. Growth, development and learning to live in a finite world / Peter Timmerman -- 3. Sustainable development, limits and growth: reflections on the conundrum / James Meadowcroft -- 4. Sustainability metrics and their use / Peter Bartelmus -- 5. A new economics for our full world / Herman Daly -- 6. Ecological modernisation and green growth: prospects and potential / Paul Ekins -- 7. Climate change, growth, and sustainability / Anders Hayden -- 8. Climate change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective / Filka Sekulova, Giorgos Kallis and Francois Schneider -- 9. Green agrowth: removing the GDP-growth constraint on human progress / Jeroen C.J.M. van Den Bergh -- 10. Innovation, technology, and economic growth / Matthais Ruth -- 11. Energy, economic growth and sustainability: an energy primer for the 21st century / Charles A. S. Hall -- 12. Shortcomings of a growth-driven food system / Michalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann -- 13. Land as a planetary boundary - a sociological perspective / Helmut Haberl and Karl-Heinz Erb -- 14. Prometheus unwound: shorter hours for sustainable degrowth / Andrea Levy -- 15. Is there a monetary growth imperative? a review / Sebastian Strunz, Bartosz Bartkowski, and Harry Schindler -- 16. Thomas Piketty, growth, distribution and the environment / Steven Pressman and Robert H. Scott, III -- 17. Growth and sustainability in a material world: the self-reinforcing cycle of population, GDP and resource use / Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Julia K. Steinberger -- 18. Economic growth, biophysical limits and sustainability in economics textbooks since 1948 / Tom L. Green -- 19. From growth to sustainability: cultural transition beyond consumerist lifestyles / Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt -- 20. Navigating the anthropocene: environmental politics and complexity in an era of limits / Stephen Quilley -- 21. Questioning sustainability in Latin America / Maria Páez Victor -- 22. Going down? human nature, growth and (un)sustainability / William E. Rees -- 23. Beyond consumer capitalism - foundations for a sustainable prosperity / Tim Jackson -- Index.
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Language:
English
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