Cents and sustainability : securing our common future by decoupling economic growth from environmental pressures / Michael H. Smith, Karlson "Charlie" Hargroves and Cheryl Desha.

Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'. The Brundtland Report argued that not only was it achiev...

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Main Author: Smith, Michael H., 1969-
Other Authors: Hargroves, Karlson, 1974-, Desha, Cheryl
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
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505 0 |a Securing "our common future" -- Achieving economic growth and reducing environmental pressures -- Factors that can undermine or even block efforts to achieve decoupling -- Factors that affect poorer nations' ability to achieve decoupling -- Informing and developing national strategies for decoupling -- Responding to the complexity of climate change -- Decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions -- Decoupling economic growth from loss of biodiversity and exosystem resilience -- Decoupling economic growth from freshwater extraction -- Decoupling economic growth from waste production -- Decoupling economic growth from air pollution -- Reducing air pollution through public interest litigation : the Delhi pollution case. 
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