Crisis of global sustainability / Tapio Kanninen
- Bib ID:
- 6220518
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kanninen, Tapio, author
- Description:
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- New York, NY : Routledge, 2013
- ©2013
- xix, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780415690430
- 9780415694179
- 9780203071861
- Series:
- Global Institutions Series ; 74
- Summary:
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"The book provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development"--Page [1]
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.The birth and evolution of the Club of Rome: Early identification of a global crisis
- 2.A new way of thinking: The MIT study The Limits to Growth
- 3.How have the concepts and doctrines of sustainability changed?
- 4.Intergovernmental action 1972-2012: From Stockholm to Rio plus 20
- 5.Planetary boundaries: Doomsday prophecies or scientific projections?
- 6.A crisis of institutions: How to manage our interconnected future
- 7.Overcoming the crisis of mind and action: Creating new institutions and strategies for a global emergency
- 8.The future: Thinking big about global institutions and world governance
- 9.Epilogue: What should be done?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [164]-165) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2013
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