Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth Future Prospects for World Civilization - Danilov-Danil'yan, Victor I.; Losev, K. S.; Reyf, Igor E.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Civilization in crisis: On the edge of an abyss -- Global ecological situation -- Critically overpopulated planet -- The ecological equivalents of modern man -- Civilization teetering over the abyss of crisis (conclusion) -- The social dimension of the crisis -- The role of centralized and market economies -- The crisis of values as the main cause of the ecological challenge -- The world community: Politicians and scientists in search of a solution -- The mission of the Club of Rome -- Programs for change: Stockholm-Rio-Johannesburg -- Toward a systemic understanding of the biosphere -- The constancy of the planetary environment in light of the biotic regulation mechanism -- Sustainable development: Between complacency and reality -- The basis of sustainability in nature and in civilization -- The national colors of sustainable development -- Co-evolution of nature and society: Fact or fiction? -- On the scale of a scientific approach -- Sustainable development in relation to the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- The starting conditions of sustainable development and the preservation of ecosystems by country and continent -- Navigation directions: Indicators of sustainable development -- "Is there enough community, responsibility, discipline and love?" (Meadows et al., 1992) -- The barricades of old thinking in the way of sustainable development -- What the market economy can and cannot accomplish -- Sustainable development and the "real human condition" -- The social premises of sustainable development and the globalization problem.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Environmental management; Climate change; Environment; Environmental economics; Sustainable Development; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environment, general; Environmental Economics