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Autore |
Zovanyi Gabor <1943-, > |
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Titolo |
The no-growth imperative : creating sustainable communities under ecological limits to growth / / Gabor Zovanyi |
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London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Earthscan from Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-18888-6 |
0-203-08401-2 |
1-283-87154-8 |
1-136-18889-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sustainable development - United States |
Economic development - Environmental aspects - United States |
Communities - United States |
Land use - United States - Planning |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface -- Requiem for the growth imperative -- The American community as a growth machine -- Rationales and strategies for stopping growth in America's communities -- The no-growth path to sustainability -- Envisioning no-growth communities -- Epilogue: ten difficult personal actions needed to save the world -- Notes -- Selected bibliography. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge confronting us now is one of replacing the current growth imperative with a no-growth imperative. Gabor Zovanyi asserts that anything less than stopping growth would merely slow today's |
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