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Autore: | Zovanyi Gabor <1943-, > |
Titolo: | The no-growth imperative : creating sustainable communities under ecological limits to growth / / Gabor Zovanyi |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Earthscan from Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina: | 338.973/07 |
Soggetto topico: | Sustainable development - United States |
Economic development - Environmental aspects - United States | |
Communities - United States | |
Land use - United States - Planning | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The no-growth imperative |
ISBN: | 1-136-18888-6 |
0-203-08401-2 | |
1-283-87154-8 | |
1-136-18889-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827126103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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