Cents and sustainability : securing our common future by decoupling economic growth from environmental pressures / / Michael H. Smith, Karlson "Charlie" Hargroves and Cheryl Desha.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:lv, 405 p. :; ill.
Notes:"The Natural Edge Project."
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Table of 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.