Crisis of global sustainability

Crisis of Global Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-188

  Kanninen, Tapio ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84909193200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203071861     Document Type: Book

References (12)

1. Ugo Bardi, The Limits to Growth Revisited (London: Springer, 2011). The volume analyzes in great detail the controversy around the 1972 publication of The Limits to Growth. It contains a lot of material on the ensuing debate that has not been put together before, and is analyzed with the benefit of time.
2. Elisabeth DeSombre, Global Environmental Institutions (London: Routledge, 2006). DeSombre’s book gives a concise review of environmental institutions and also includes a description of major UN conferences and commissions related to the environment and sustainable development.
3. Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Abundance, The Future is Better Than You Think (New York: Free Press, 2012). The book gives an optimistic account on how technology could solve the problems of humankind. It is based essentially on an anecdotal account of innovations and stories of success in applying technology during the last few decades.
4. Simon Dresner, The Principles of Sustainability (London: Earthscan, 2002). The volume gives a comprehensive account of concepts, theories and developments related to sustainability.
5. Paul Gilding, The Great Disruption (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011). A detailed description of the massive environmental and economic crisis the author expects mankind to face in the near future, and some solutions to counter the crisis.
6. Tyler Gowen, The Great Stagnation (New York: Dutton, 2011). The book gives a readable account of problems in the US economy and the role of innovation in economic trends.
7. James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth of the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (New York: Bloomsbury, 2008). A readable volume from a leading climate scientist who is deeply concerned about the future. The book’s subtitle tells it all.
8. Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). A now classic overview of a “contrarian” assessment of trends in the environment. It contains an impressive amount of statistics which, however, became the subject of controversy after the book’s publication. Lomborg has recently changed his views on climate change, which he now claims needs urgent action.
9. Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III, The Limits to Growth (New York, University Books, 1972). This classic study describes the negative and compounded effects of population and industrial growth, resource depletion, pollution, and environmental degradation. It is one of the bestsellers in scientific and policy literature.
10. Gunter Pauli, The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs (Taos, New Mexico: Paradigm Publications, 2010). A new, bestselling report to the Club of Rome that describes new technologies that imitate nature and could provide a basis for global sustainability.
11. Jorgen Randers, 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, a report to the Club of Rome (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012). An interesting, comprehensive and readable update of the projections of The Limits to Growth (LTG) study by one of its original authors. This time the author tries to make a prediction of how the world will look in 2052, not only project the future under different assumptions as was done in LTG.
12. UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, A More Secure World, Our Shared Responsibility (New York: United Nations, 2004). The High-level Panel reviewed global challenges we face in a comprehensive manner and proposed a large number of recommendations to counter them.