Society And The Environment: A Swedish Research Perspective
Following the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development, research efforts devoted to sustainable development were promoted by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN). With its fifteen essays by Swedish scholars on different aspects of society -- enviro...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
| Series: | Ecology, Economy & Environment
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I Perspectives On Sustainability
- 1. Our Common Future and Beyond: Interpretations of Sustainable Development
- 2. The Global and the Local
- 3. Designing Resource Systems for Sustainability: Safe-Fail versus Fail-Safe Strategiesl
- 4. Local Models, Global Change: Community Impacts and Sustainability Visions
- II Instruments Of Understanding
- 5. The Emergence of an Ecological Economics Paradigm: Examples from Fisheries and Aquaculture
- 6. On Designing Socio-Ecological Indicators
- 7. Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Economy: The Perspective of an Economist
- 8. Economic and Environmental Policies for Sustainability
- 9. GIS for the Territorial Concern: Supporting Local Sustainable Development with Modern Information Technology
- III The Shaping Of Minds
- 10. Woodland Polyphony
- 11. Towards Drastic Societal Changes: Historical Experiences about the Pace in which Societies Can Turn
- 12. The Role of Organizations in the Establishment of Ecological Consensus in Industrialized Countries
- 13. Conceptions of Future Threats and Developments: Psychological Starting Points and Educational Possibilities
- 14. The Interplay of Research and Politics: The Case of Antarctica
- IV Concluding Remarks
- 15. The Challenge of the Societal Dimension to Environmental Issues: A Swedish Research Response
- Notes on the Contributors