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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462810103321

Autore

Kanninen Tapio

Titolo

Crisis of global sustainability / / Tapio Kanninen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-92404-8

0-203-07186-7

1-135-09739-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Routledge global institutions series ; ; 74

Disciplina

338.9/27

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Government policy

Sustainable development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Crisis of Global Sustainability; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The birth and evolution of the Club of Rome: Earlyidentification of a global crisis; 2. A new way of thinking: The MIT study The Limits to Growth; 3. How have the concepts and doctrines of sustainability changed?; 4. Intergovernmental action 1972-2012: From Stockholm toRio plus 20; 5. Planetary boundaries: Doomsday prophecies or scientificprojections?; 6. A crisis of institutions: How to manage our interconnectedfuture

7. Overcoming the crisis of mind and action: Creating newinstitutions and strategies for a global emergency8. The future: Thinking big about global institutions andworld governance; 9. Epilogue: What should be done?; Notes; Select bibliography; Index; Routledge Global Institutions Series

Sommario/riassunto

"The book provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development"--



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Record Nr.

UNISA996391956603316

Titolo

At the court at Whitehall the ninth of January 1683 [[electronic resource] ] : present the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... : whereas by the grace and blessing of God the kings and queens of this realm by many ages past have had the happiness, by their sacred touch and invocation of the name of God, to cure those who are afflicted with the disease called the Kings-evil .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd, and by Henry Hills, and by Thomas Newcomb ..., 1683 [i.e. 1684]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Charles, King of England,  <1630-1685.>

Soggetti

Scrofula

Royal touch

Broadsides17th century.London (England)

Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062