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The aim of this chapter is to present the case that limits to growth have already been reached, that further input growth will take the planet further away from sustainability, and that we are rapidly foreclosing options for the future, possibly by overshooting limits (Catton 1982). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonmarketed natural capital, manmade capital, throughput growth, capita resource use, economic subsystem, natural capital stocks, depletable resources, benign activities, environmental accounting, environmental functions, human appropriation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, New York, United States, World Commission, Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press, United Nations Environment Program, Columbia University Press, Our Common Future, Beacon Press, Global Environment Facility, Third World, Worldwatch Institute, Asian Development Bank, Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, Sustainable Future, The Role of Investment, World Development Report, World Resources Institute, Environment Department Paper, Environment Department Working Paper, Clarendon Press, Department of Commerce, Harvard University Press, Herman Daly New!
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The aim of this chapter is to present the case that limits to growth have already been reached, that further input growth will take the planet further away from sustainability, and that we are rapidly foreclosing options for the future, possibly by overshooting limits (Catton 1982). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonmarketed natural capital, manmade capital, throughput growth, capita resource use, economic subsystem, natural capital stocks, depletable resources, benign activities, environmental accounting, environmental functions, human appropriation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, New York, United States, World Commission, Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press, United Nations Environment Program, Columbia University Press, Our Common Future, Beacon Press, Global Environment Facility, Third World, Worldwatch Institute, Asian Development Bank, Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, Sustainable Future, The Role of Investment, World Development Report, World Resources Institute, Environment Department Paper, Environment Department Working Paper, Clarendon Press, Department of Commerce, Harvard University Press, Herman Daly New!
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- Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability by Robert Costanza on 10 pages
- Our Common Future (Oxford Paperback Reference) by World Commission On Environment and Development on 9 pages
- For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly on 6 pages
- Environmental Accounting for Sustainable Development (Unep-World Bank Symposium) by Yusuf J. Ahmad on page 37, page 61, and page 89
- Blueprint 1: For a Green Economy (Blueprint Series) by David Pearce on page 51, and page 79
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- When Corporations Rule the World by David C Korten in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor by Tom Athanasiou in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wild and Scenic Rivers of America by Tim Palmer in Back Matter
- Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival, Second Edition (Ecological Economics) by Thomas Prugh in Front Matter
- Ecosystem Health: New Goals For Environmental Management by Bryan G. Norton in Back Matter
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