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Sustainable Development The Challenge of Transition [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Business & Economics)
  • ISBN-10:  0521153298
  • ISBN-10:  0521153298
  • ISBN-13:  9780521153294
  • ISBN-13:  9780521153294
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  240
  • Pages:  240
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2010
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2010
  • SKU:  0521153298-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0521153298-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 101450707
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In this book, prominent authors discuss what changes must occur to ensure a successful transition to sustainability.Demographers predict that world population will double to around twelve billion people during the first half of the 21st century. Based on this scenario, this book examines what societal changes must occur over the next generation to ensure a successful transition to sustainability. An array of prominent authors present a broad discussion of sustainable development: economic, environmental, spiritual, religious, corporate, social, scientific and political. This volume will appeal to scholars and decision makers interested in global change, environmental policy, and population growth, and also to corporate environmental managers.Demographers predict that world population will double to around twelve billion people during the first half of the 21st century. Based on this scenario, this book examines what societal changes must occur over the next generation to ensure a successful transition to sustainability. An array of prominent authors present a broad discussion of sustainable development: economic, environmental, spiritual, religious, corporate, social, scientific and political. This volume will appeal to scholars and decision makers interested in global change, environmental policy, and population growth, and also to corporate environmental managers.Demographers predict that the world population will double during the first half of the 21st century before it will begin to level off. In this volume, a group of prominent authors examine what societal changes must occur to meet this challenge to the natural environment and the transformational changes that we must experience to achieve sustainability. Frances Cairncross, Herman E. Daly, Stephen H. Schneider and others provide a broad discussion of sustainable development. They detail economic and environmental, as well as spiritual and religious, corporate and social, scientific and political factors. Sl“!
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