Saving the planet : how to shape an environmentally sustainable global economy /
Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton, c1991.
- 224 p. ; 21 cm.
- The Worldwatch environmental alert series .
Content Acknowledgements 7 Foreword 9
1. Uncover the Lifeboats 17
I. The Shape of a Sustainable Economy 33
2. The Efficiency Revolution 35
3. Building a Solar Economy 48
4. Reusing and Recycling Materials 64
5. Protecting the Biological Base 73
6.Grai for Eight Billion 83
7. A Stable World population 97
II. Instruments of Change 111
8. From growth to sustainable Progress 113
9.Better Indicators of Human Welfare 121
10. Reshaping Government Incentives 131
11. Green Taxes 141
12. Banking on the Environment 150
III. The Change A head 163
13. The Struggle for a New world 165 index 217
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-216) index.