The no-growth imperative : creating sustainable communities under ecological limits to growth / / Gabor Zovanyi

• Autore: Zovanyi Gabor <1943-, >
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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: 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.: 9910452884503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II