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Author : Bruno S. Sergi
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Book Synopsis Ecological Footprint of the Modern Economy and the Ways to Reduce It by : Bruno S. Sergi
Download or read book Ecological Footprint of the Modern Economy and the Ways to Reduce It written by Bruno S. Sergi. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mathis Wackernagel
Release : 1998-07-01
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Our Ecological Footprint by : Mathis Wackernagel
Download or read book Our Ecological Footprint written by Mathis Wackernagel. This book was released on 1998-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Ecological Footprint presents an internationally-acclaimed tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations, converting the seemingly complex concepts of carrying capacity, resource-use, waste-disposal and the like into a graphic form that everyone can grasp and use. An excellent handbook for community activists, planners, teachers, students and policy makers.
Author : Robert Vale
Release : 2013-09-02
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint by : Robert Vale
Download or read book Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint written by Robert Vale. This book was released on 2013-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share ecological footprint. The authors describe numerical methods used to calculate this, concentrating on low or no cost behaviour change, rather than on potentially expensive technological innovation. They show what people need to do now in regions where their current lifestyle means they are living beyond their ecological means, such as in Europe, North America and Australasia. The calculations focus on outcomes rather than on detailed discussion of the methods used. The main objective is to show that living with a reduced ecological footprint is both possible and not so very different from the way most people currently live in the west. The book clearly demonstrates that change in behaviour now will avoid some very challenging problems in the future. The emphasis is on workable, practical and sustainable solutions based on quantified research, rather than on generalities about overall problems facing humanity.
Author : Mathis Wackernagel
Release : 1996
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Our Ecological Footprint by : Mathis Wackernagel
Download or read book Our Ecological Footprint written by Mathis Wackernagel. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive analysis of the ecological resources and technologies required for sustaining households, communites, regions, and nations.
Author : Peter Victor
Release : 2013-12-03
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature by : Peter Victor
Download or read book Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature written by Peter Victor. This book was released on 2013-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed in an empty world. If we are to create sustainable prosperity, if we seek “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities,” we are going to need a new vision of the economy and its relationship to the rest of the world that is better adapted to the new conditions we face. We are going to need an economics that respects planetary boundaries, that recognizes the dependence of human well-being on social relations and fairness, and that recognizes that the ultimate goal is real, sustainable human well-being, not merely growth of material consumption. This new economics recognizes that the economy is embedded in a society and culture that are themselves embedded in an ecological life-support system, and that the economy cannot grow forever on this finite planet. In this report, we discuss the need to focus more directly on the goal of sustainable human well-being rather than merely GDP growth. This includes protecting and restoring nature, achieving social and intergenerational fairness (including poverty alleviation), stabilizing population, and recognizing the significant nonmarket contributions to human well-being from natural and social capital. To do this, we need to develop better measures of progress that go well beyond GDP and begin to measure human well-being and its sustainability more directly.
