General Information

Author/Creator

Sachs, Wolfgang.

Language

English.

Published

London : Zed, 1998.

Physical Description

xii, 247 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Loske, Reinhard.

Linz, Manfred, 1927-

Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt und Energie.

Contents/Summary

Summary

While sustainability is in danger of being reduced to a meaningless platitude, the brutal fact remains that industrial countries make a disproportionately large and negative impact on the environment. A serious transition to sustainability will require changing people's mindsets and social institutions, in addition to public policies, technologies and business practices. This book presents a path-breaking analysis as well as highly innovative proposals for managing this transition. Emanating from Europe's foremost environmental policy think-tank, it has already stirred up a major new debate in Germany on radical, but feasible, directions in which the governments of industrial societies ought to be moving. The concept of 'environmental space' and its ingenious development of indicators for measuring an economy's national and global impact combine with its delineation of concrete policies to give this book its intellectual power and potential political impact.

Subjects

Subject

Environmental economics.

Environmental economics > Germany.

Sustainable development.

Sustainable development > Germany.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Wolfgang Sachs, Reinhard Loske and Manfred Linz ; with Ralf Behrensmeier ... [et al.] ; translated by Timothy Nevill.

Note

"A study by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy."

Originally published: Basel : Birkhäuser Verlag, c1996.

Translated from the German.

Content

1. Introduction -- 2. Guidelines -- 3. Targets -- 4. Taking Stock -- 5. Paradigms and Scenarios -- 6. Transitions -- 7. Contexts.

ISBN

1856495078

1856495086

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	-	-	OSA Repository	-