Supply-Side Sustainability /

Supply-Side Sustainability / / Timothy Allen, Thomas Hoekstra, Joseph Tainter.

While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Allen, Timothy,
Hoekstra, Thomas,
Tainter, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Complexity in Ecological Systems
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 44 line, 66 h/t
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1. The Nature of the Problem
  • I. COMPLEXITY, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
  • 2. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework
  • 3. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience
  • II. A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH TO ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
  • 4. The Criteria for Observation and Modeling
  • 5. Biomes and the Biosphere
  • 6. Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence
  • 7. Retrospect and Prospects
  • References
  • Index

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