Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth Future Prospects for World Civilization /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Danilov-Danil'yan, Victor I. (Autor), Losev, K. S. (Autor), Reyf, Igor E. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Environmental Sciences
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75250-9
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.