Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 276 g
What Future for the Human Species and the Planet
Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 276 g
ISBN: 978-1-84545-498-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books
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- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
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Preface: Let us make peace with the Earth
Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
Introduction
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Former Secretary-General of United Nations
PART I: ARE THERE LIMITS TO GROWTH? POPULATION, RESOURCES, ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1. How and when will we experience limits to growth?
Dennis Meadows
Chapter 2. Dematerialization and sustainable development
Mostafa Tolba
Chapter 3. What limits and what kind of development?
Dominique Voynet
PART II: WATER FOR ALL?
Chapter 4. Quo Vadis world of water?
Asit K. Biswas
Chapter 5. What will be the impact of climatic change on water availability?
Syukuro Manabe
Chapter 6. Which crises in the 21st century?
Jean Margat
PART III: BIODIVERSITY IN PERIL
Chapter 7. Why should we care about biodiversity? The meeting of ecology and ethics
Michel Loreau
Chapter 8. The state of global biodiversity
Edward O. Wilson
PART IV: SAVING THE PLANET: CONSUME LESS TO LIVE BETTER?
Chapter 9. Can we afford to reduce our ecological footprint?
Mathis Wackernagel
Chapter 10. Will we be able to reduce superfluous consumption?
Haroldo Mattos de Lemos
Chapter 11. An ecological pact: joining forces to place ecology at the centre of public debate
Nicolas Hulot
PART V: A NEW ETHIC OF RESPONSIBILITY: TOWARDS A NATURAL CONTRACT?
Chapter 12. Atmospheric chemistry and climate in the Anthropocene
Paul J. Crutzen
Chapter 13. Let the Earth be whole
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Chapter 14. A return to the natural contract
Michel Serres
Conclusion
Jérôme Bindé
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index