Format:
Book
Author:
Goodall, Chris, author.
Title:
Sustainability / Chris Goodall.
Publisher, Date:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2012.
Description:
154 pages : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Summary:
Goodall argues that building a sustainable society is the greatest challenge that the world has ever faces. The high living standards of current generations have been partly achieved by borrowing from the future and ignoring the impacts on the people yet to come. He suggests that economic growth will help us build a more sustainable world.
Series:
All that matters
All that matters.
Subjects:
Sustainability.
Consumption (Economics)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Depleting natural capital -- Are we going to run out of anything? -- Will economic growth make our problems worse? An unconventional view -- Planetary boundaries -- Two central ideas -- Food -- Steel -- Clothing -- Energy -- An ethical challenge -- Appendix: 100 ideas.
ISBN:
9781444174403 (pbk.)
1444174401 (pbk.)
Other Number:
820079444
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
1137306
Call Number:
338.927 GOOD
Course Reserves:
0
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