Flourishing Within Limits to Groth Folloing nature's ay [Hardcover]

Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue  there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model. 

The book describes how nature uses three growth forms: biomass, information, and networks, resulting in improved overall ecosystem functioning and co-development. As biomass growth is limited by available resources, nature uses the two other growth forms to achieve higher resource use efficiency. Through a universal application of the three Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle, nature thus shows us a way forward towards better solutions. However, our current approach, dominated by short-term economic thinking, inhibits full utilization of the three Rs and other successful approaches from nature. 

Building on ecological principles, the authors present a global model and futures scenario analyses which show that implementation of the proposed changes will lead to a win-win situation. In other words, we can learn from nature how to develop a society that can flourish within the limits to growth with better conditions for prosperity and well-being.

1. Introduction  2. Limits to Growth  3. How Nature Flourishes within Limits  4. How to Adopt Natures Properties in our Society?  5. Working with a Global Model  6. To Think Like an Ecosystem is Key to Win-win Outcomes for Humans and Environment  7. Ecological Footprint  8. Sustainability  9. Can We Overcome the Obstacles?

The Club of Sienna has provided a helpful review, exposition, and extension of the Club of Romes systems modeling approach, demonstrating the increasing relevance of the 1972 book The Limits to Growth to problems that continue today. Especially recomml.