The Principles of SustainabilityRoutledge, 4 mag 2012 - 224 pagine At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration and climate change, sustainability is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? This text tackles these questions directly. It covers: historical development of the concept of sustainability; contemporary debates about how to achieve it; and obstacles and the prospects for overcoming them. This new fully revised edition covers the latest on the climate change front, particularly the advances in scientific understanding and political awareness of climate change. Other updates include more recent economic analyses, particularly the Stern Report, and the global shift away from faith in markets over the past five years. |
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... century. Malthus had claimed that uncontrolled population growth among the poor meant that wealth could not be distributed more equally, as some supporters of the French Revolution wanted. The numbers of poor would quickly grow to eat ...
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... century, European scientists began to make dramatic new breakthroughs. The invention of the telescope and Galileo's discovery of moons orbitingJupiter led to the overthrow of the old Earth-centred view of the universe. The discrediting ...
... century by rapid advances in many fields of science. The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason looked for the rationality that was being applied so successfully in science to be turned to other fields. In England, the philosopher John ...
... century, the application of the steam engine, starting in England but soon spreading across Europe and America, led to a sudden explosion of manufacturing activity that Friedrich Engels later named the 'Industrial Revolution'. Within ...