The Future of Sustainability

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Keiner, Marco (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Sustainability—Quo Vadis?
  • Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment—2006
  • Sustainable Development—Definitions, Principles, Policies
  • Sustainability is Not Enough
  • Challenges to Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Development and Urbanization
  • Sustainable Economies—Local or Global?
  • Business and Human Rights
  • New approaches
  • A New Glasnost for Global Sustainability
  • Tools for the Transition to Sustainability
  • ‘Factor Four’ and Sustainable Development in the Age of Globalization
  • Ecological Footprint Accounting—Comparing Earth's Biological Capacity with an Economy's Resource Demand
  • Advancing Sustainable Development and its Implementation Through Spatial Planning
  • Sustainability is Dead—Long Live Sustainability