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Concise Introduction to Sustainable Consumption
John Thøgersen
Examining the psychological and social drivers of unsustainable and sustainable consumption, this Concise Introduction provides an insightful overview of the causes of unsustainable consumer behaviour and the instruments and intervention...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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What Next for Sustainable Development?
Edited by James Meadowcroft, David Banister, Erling Holden, Oluf Langhelle, Kristin Linnerud, Geoffrey Gilpin
This book examines the international experience with sustainable development since the concept was brought to world-wide attention in Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Scholars fro...eBook:Find out more$35.96
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Managing without Growth, Second Edition
Peter A. Victor
Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet. This book explains why long-term economic growth ...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Heat, Greed and Human Need
Ian Gough
This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sust...eBook:Find out more$28.76
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![From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy]()
From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy
Herman E. Daly
In this important book, Herman E. Daly lays bare the weaknesses of growth economics and explains why, in contrast, a steady-state economy is both necessary and desirable. Through the course of the book, Daly develops the basic concept an...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Sustainable Automobility
Paul Nieuwenhuis
If we are part of nature, then so is everything we make. This unique book explores this notion using the example of the car, how it is made and used and especially how we relate to it, with a view to creating a more sustainable automobil...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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![Innovations in Sustainable Consumption]()
Innovations in Sustainable Consumption
Edited by Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt
This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change – for example, emphasizing resource efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources – are...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Weak versus Strong Sustainability
Eric Neumayer
This fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sust...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Carbon Sinks and Climate Change
Colin A.G. Hunt
Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are ways of harnessing nature to tackle global warming – the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in clim...eBook:Find out more$43.16
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The Economic Growth Engine
Robert U. Ayres, Benjamin Warr
The historic link between output (GDP) growth and employment has weakened. Since there is no quantitively verifiable economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (p...eBook:Find out more$63.96
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Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics
Edited by Jonathan M. Harris, Neva R. Goodwin
The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including ... -
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Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly
Herman E. Daly
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development comprises a carefully chosen selection of some 25 articles, speeches, congressional testimonies, reviews, and critiques from the last ten years of Herman Daly’s ever-illuminating work.eBook:Find out more$52.76
