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Cents and sustainability : securing our common future by decoupling economic growth from environmental pressures / Michael H. Smith, Karlson "Charlie" Hargroves and Cheryl Desha.
Lippincott Library HD75.6 .S616 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Michael H., 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Environmental aspects.
- Economic development.
- Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Greenhouse gas mitigation.
- Environmental policy.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- lv, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
- Contents:
- Securing "our common future"
- Achieving economic growth and reducing environmental pressures
- Factors that can undermine or even block efforts to achieve decoupling
- Factors that affect poorer nations' ability to achieve decoupling
- Informing and developing national strategies for decoupling
- Responding to the complexity of climate change
- Decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions
- Decoupling economic growth from loss of biodiversity and exosystem resilience
- Decoupling economic growth from freshwater extraction
- Decoupling economic growth from waste production
- Decoupling economic growth from air pollution
- Reducing air pollution through public interest litigation : the Delhi pollution case.
- Notes:
- "The Natural Edge Project."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781844075294
- 184407529X
- OCLC:
- 640132056
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