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The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future

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  • © 1994

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  1. Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

    1. The Hague, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 1)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Contours of a Sustainable Future

    1. Towards a sustainable economy: the need for international cooperation on the environment

      • Henk Folmer
      Pages 372-396

    2. Sustainable future — what can we expect from the next generation? A Dutch perspective

      • Mieke de Waal
      Pages 398-415

    3. Environment and emancipation of (wo-)men

      • Annelies de Vries
      Pages 416-440

    4. A political basis for a sustainable society

      • Maarten Mentzel, Percy B. Lehning
      Pages 442-465

    5. Virtues and values in science

      • Mieke Boon, Joop Doorman
      Pages 466-494

    6. Towards a sustainable future, en route with technology!

      • Leo Jansen
      Pages 496-525

    7. Indicative spatial picture: a Dutch perspective

      • Taeke M. de Jong, Dirk Frieling
      Pages 526-559

  2. Interlude

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 561-561
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    2. The world we do or do not want

      • Leo Vroman
      Pages 562-567

  3. Towards a Sustainable Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 569-569
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    2. Conclusions and recommendations

      • Leo Vroman
      Pages 570-596

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 597-608
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About this book

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed? In this book, the Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy, an expert advisory board to the Dutch Minister of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, shows possible ways in which society can move towards a sustainable future.
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.'

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Hague, The Netherlands

    Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

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

  • 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

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Environmental Management

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