Wayne Ellwood

The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

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Produktbeschreibung

The prevailing model of endless economic growth is unsustainable. This book unpicks the idea of degrowth and explores alternative visions.

Produktdetails

• No-Nonsense Guides
• Verlag: New Internationalist
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 108mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 171g
• ISBN-13: 9781780261232
• ISBN-10: 1780261233
• Artikelnr.: 39411436

Autorenporträt

Wayne Ellwood is former co-editor of New Internationalist magazine. He is author of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (over 50,000).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Peter A Victor
Introduction
1. The Growth Machine
2. Sources, sinks and services
3. Climate change and carbon footprints
4. Peak oil and tar sands
5. Profits, debt and the growth imperative
6. GDP and happiness
7. Life on the treadmill
8. On the road to degrowth
Resources and organisations
Index