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Saving the planet : how to shape an environmentally sustainable global economy / Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel.

By: Contributor(s): Series: The Worldwatch environmental alert seriesPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c1991.Edition: 1st edDescription: 224 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0393030709 :
  • 0393308235 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.7/056 20
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Book Closed Access Book Closed Access Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences Library 363.7/056BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00011500

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.

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