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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Introduction
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Signs of Hope
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The Transformation to a Sustainable Future
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Philosophical and Methodological Considerations on Planning the Future
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Contours of a Sustainable Future
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About this book
The book goes in search of a new social order, an order in which sustainability is guaranteed. This search holds four main elements:
- signs of hope: which positive initiatives and developments exist which will lead to a sustainable future?
- transformations: which transformations are needed to reach a sustainable future?
- philosophical and methodological reflections: can one predict the future?
- institutions: what are the necessary changes in the basic institutions of society to reach a sustainable future?
The committee has invited well-known experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to check the existing social order from a point of sustainability and to give recommendations for a sustainable future. The central conclusion is that we are in need of an evolving green strategy aimed at sustainability. The contours of this strategy are described and a large set of recommendations to reach a sustainable future are given. As the committee states: `There is no certainty and no statistical probability for a sustainable future, but there is at least a chance.'
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future
Editors: Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy
Series Title: Environment & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0808-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2655-7Due: 30 November 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2656-4Published: 30 November 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0808-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1383-5130
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0110
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 608
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations