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Redeveloping Regional Economies For Present And Future Generations: Prosperity For People Within Ecological Limits, Langdon Marsh, Craig W. Shinn
Redeveloping Regional Economies For Present And Future Generations: Prosperity For People Within Ecological Limits, Langdon Marsh, Craig W. Shinn
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Many scientists and scholars believe the world is headed toward multiple ecological and social crises during the lifetime of much of the world's population. If they are correct, a shift in how economies work will be necessary. We will no longer be able to rely on the ever expanding use of natural resources with the attendant pollution from their extraction, processing, transport, disposal, and social costs including civil disruptions and wars associated with greater scarcity. A number of proposals have been made that offer either comprehensive or partial solutions to the regional and global dimensions of these impending crises. One …
Creating A Sustainable And Desirable Future, Robert Costanza
Creating A Sustainable And Desirable Future, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
The article suggests methods of social and economic reform as a means to counter environment impact of pollution resulting from dependence on fossil fuels.
The Search For Real, Integrative Solutions, Robert Costanza
The Search For Real, Integrative Solutions, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
The article presents the author's views on the inaugural issue of the journal. He states that the journal is aimed at building a shared vision in the society. He believes that one of the reasons for the society's inability to make progress is because of the academia, media, law and politics cast complex problems as polar opposites, which is known as argument culture that the journal aims to resolve.