Crisis of global sustainability / / Tapio Kanninen

• Autore: Kanninen Tapio
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 178 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 338.9/27
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable development - Government policy; Sustainable development
• Classificazione: POL000000POL010000POL011000
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Crisis of global sustainability
• ISBN: 1-135-09738-0; 1-283-92404-8; 0-203-07186-7; 1-135-09739-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828929903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Global institutions series ; ; 74.