The limits to growth : the 30-year update / Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meadows, Donella H.

Contributor:

Randers, Jørgen

Meadows, Dennis L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Population--Economic aspects.

Population.

Pollution--Economic aspects.

Pollution.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xxii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

White River Junction, Vt : Chelsea Green Pub., [2004]

Summary:

Just over 30 years ago a path-breaking book was published called The Limits to Growth. It posited the then controversial idea that unlimited growth on a finite planet would inevitably lead to ecological collapse. The book became a surprise international best-seller and was translated into more than a dozen languages. In 1992 Chelsea Green published Beyond the Limits bringing the data and the systems analysis up to date. Now Limits to Growth: The 30 year Update takes the analysis into the first decade of the 21st century to show that while the situation remains precarious, there is still time to bring the Earth back from the brink of ecological collapse.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-325) and index.

ISBN:

1931498512

193149858X

OCLC:

54035081