Reconsidering the Limits to Growth A Report to the Russian Association of the Club of Rome

Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and understanding of these limits have s...

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Other Authors: Sadovnichy, Viktor (Editor), Akaev, Askar (Editor), Ilyin, Ilya (Editor), Malkov, Sergey (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 11. Future Political Change: Toward a More Efficient World Order.-Chapter 12. High Income and Low Income Countries: Toward a Common Goal at Different Speeds
  • Chapter 13. Africa – the Continent of the Future: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Part 4: Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics –from Agrarian to Cybernetic W-Society
  • Chapter 14. Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: An Overview
  • Chapter 15. Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: A General Approach
  • Chapter 16. Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: Agrarian Society
  • Chapter 17. Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: Industrial Society
  • Chapter 18. Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: Global Phase Transitions
  • Chapter 19. Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: Modern Society and a Look into the Global Futures: Cybernetic W-Society
  • Chapter 20. Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: Africa's Futures
  • Chapter 21. Analyzing Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: Future Cybernetic W-Society: Socio-Political Aspects
  • Chapter 22. Analyzing Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics: Life Quality Index
  • Chapter 23. Conclusion: Reconsidering The Limits – Suggestions (Come On!)
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Hoping for the Future
  • Part 1: Looking into the Past and the Future
  • Chapter 2. Macrohistorical Approach
  • Chapter 3. Future Society and Transition to It
  • Part 2: Problems, Forecasts, Solutions (Climate, Ecology, Demography, Aging)
  • Chapter 4. Climate and Energy: Scenarios of Energy Transition and Global Temperature Changes Based on Current Technologies and Trends
  • Chapter 5. Ecology: Life in the “Unstable Biosphere”
  • Chapter 6. Demography: Toward Optimization of Demographic Processes
  • Chapter 7. Global Aging – an Integral Problem of the Future: How to Turn a Problem into a Development Driver?
  • Part 3: Problems, Forecasts, Solutions (Technology, Economics, Socio-Political Development)
  • Chapter 8. Technology: Limitless Possibilities, Effective Control
  • Chapter 9. Economics: Optimizing Growth
  • Chapter 10. Socio-Political Transformations: A Difficult Path to Cybernetic Society