Green Living, Sustainable Development
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Overview
How do we solve the problems of over-consumption in the North, gnawing poverty in the South, progress in some newly-industrialized countries, and face the challenges created by the globalization of the market economy? This powerful book synthesizes, for the first time, a wealth of experience and insight. It offers a profound analysis of our common problems along with alternatives for collective action which would achieve a new ecological balance between a much larger global population and the life-sustaining capacity of the environment. The complex issues of sustainable development, particularly the restructuring of global output and consumption and changes in lifestyles, are analyzed on both a national and global level. This book answers the critical question of our time: How do we achieve long-term sustainable societies which emphasize ecological soundness, responsible consumerism, and economic justice?Editorials
Booknews
A project of the Sustainable Europe Campaign of Friends of the Earth, introducing the Environmental Space approach to making human life sustainable on the planet. Explains such elements as the global commons from wild frontier to full world, managing the commons in the North and the South, fair shares in environmental space and how to assess them, eco-innovation, sufficiency and the consumer society, and sustainable production and consumption. Assumes not technical background, and refers readers to other sources for details and extensive applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
August 1, 1998
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Pages
227
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312213671