Overview
- Brings together the visions and contributions of highly esteemed thinkers on this subject (such as Herman E. Daly, Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Mikhail Gorbachev, Dennis Meadows and others)
- Fundamentally rethinks sustainability in the context of rapid global change
- Criticise and questions the concept of sustainability
- Offers New Dimensions of understanding sustainable development
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Challenges to Sustainable Development
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New approaches
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Back Matter
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About this book
At the beginning of the 21st Millennium, outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists make a timely assessment as to the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading? How can the world become more just and equitable, and how can future development be sustained to adequately address economic, social, and –perhaps most important– environmental issues?
This book provides a broad discussion on Sustainable Development, rethinking and improving its effectiveness as a paradigm of today and tomorrow by bringing together the visions and contributions of highly esteemed thinkers on the subject (such as Herman E. Daly, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Mikhail Gorbachev, Dennis Meadows and others). Communities, states, and transnational corporations must take steps to transform engrained practices and priorities. If they fail to do so, Sustainable Development will remain an abstract concept or a superficial catchword and will not become reality.
This publication is of special interest for university researchers and students, international experts and organizations in the field of Sustainable Development, but also for decision-makers of enterprises and the public sector worldwide. From each author’s thoughts, experiences and concerns the reader will learn about what the concept of Sustainable Development can really accomplish and where future needs for action are.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of Sustainability
Editors: Marco Keiner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4908-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4734-3Published: 29 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7184-2Published: 06 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4908-8Published: 09 September 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 258
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Political Science, Climate Change, Development Economics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice