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The limits to growth : the 30-year update /

by Meadows, Donella H; Randers, Jørgen; Meadows, Dennis L.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: White River Junction, Vt : Chelsea Green Publishing Company, c2004Description: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1931498512 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781931498517 (hardcover : alk. paper); 193149858X (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781931498586 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Economic development -- Environmental aspects | Population -- Economic aspects | Pollution -- Economic aspects | Sustainable development | Développement économique -- Aspect de l'environnement | Population -- Aspect économique | Pollution -- Aspect économique | Développement durable | Economische groei | Duurzame ontwikkeling | Milieu | Toekomstverwachtingen | Computermodellen | Desenvolvimento econômico (aspectos ambientais) | Poluição | Desenvolvimento sustentável
Contents:
Overshoot -- The driving force: exponential growth -- The limits: sources and sinks -- World3: the dynamics of growth in a finite world -- Back from beyond the limits: the ozone story -- Technology, markets, and overshoot -- Transitions to a sustainable system -- Tools for the transition to sustainability.
Summary: [This book] brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of over-shoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes compellingly clear the vital need for a sustainability revolution.-Dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-325) and index.

Overshoot -- The driving force: exponential growth -- The limits: sources and sinks -- World3: the dynamics of growth in a finite world -- Back from beyond the limits: the ozone story -- Technology, markets, and overshoot -- Transitions to a sustainable system -- Tools for the transition to sustainability.

[This book] brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of over-shoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes compellingly clear the vital need for a sustainability revolution.-Dust jacket.

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