Earth at Risk : : Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability /

Earth at Risk : : Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability / / Claude Henry, Laurence Tubiana.

We are squandering our planet's natural capital-its biodiversity, water and soil, and climate stability-at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though technology has been one of the drivers of the current trend of uns...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Henry, Claude,
Tubiana, Laurence,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 EROSION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
  • 2 THE UBIQUITOUS WASTE AND GROWING SCARCITY OF WATER AND SOIL
  • 3 ENERGY: AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE
  • 4 PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
  • 5 ENLISTING THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
  • 6 SUSTAINABILITY AT THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND NATURE
  • 7 SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY, FABRICATED UNCERTAINTY, AND THE VULNERABILITY OF REGULATION
  • 8 PRODUCING AND DISSEMINATING SUSTAINABILITYENHANCING INNOVATIONS
  • 9 ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
  • 10 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
  • 11 THE GEOPOLITICS OF ENVIRONMENT
  • 12 THE NEW MULTIPOLARITY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
  • CONCLUSION
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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