The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed? In this book, the Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy, an expert advisory board to the Dutch Minister of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, shows possible ways in which society can move towards a sustainable future. The book goes in search of a new social order, an order in which sustainability is guaranteed. This search holds four main elements:

• signs of hope: which positive initiatives and developments exist which will lead to a sustainable future?
• transformations: which transformations are needed to reach a sustainable future?
• philosophical and methodological reflections: can one predict the future?
• institutions: what are the necessary changes in the basic institutions of society to reach a sustainable future?

The committee has invited well-known experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to check the existing social order from a point of sustainability and to give recommendations for a sustainable future. The central conclusion is that we are in need of an evolving green strategy aimed at sustainability. The contours of this strategy are described and a large set of recommendations to reach a sustainable future are given. As the committee states: `There is no certainty and no statistical probability for a sustainable future, but there is at least a chance.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401108089
• Artikelnr.: 43985225

Inhaltsangabe

1. Long-term environmental policy: towards a sustainable future CLTM.- 2. Signs of hope for the 21st century.- 3. Socialization of environmental policy objectives: tools for environmental marketing.- 4. Management of environmental policy networks.- 5. The science/public-policy dialogue on long-term environmental planning.- 6. The environment as a security issue.- 7. Sustainability - a new challenge for Japan.- 8. International decision-making on sustainability.- 9. International views on long-term environmental policy.- 10. Environmental policy in transformation: a philosophical approach.- 11. Trends and discontinuities: their relevance for sustainable development strategies.- 12. An ecologically sustainable biosphere.- 13. Decrease of population growth: a condition for a sustainable future.- 14. Towards a sustainable economy: the need for international cooperation on the environment.- 15. Sustainable future: what can we expect from the next generation? A Dutch perspective.- 16. Environment and emancipation of (wo-)men.- 17. A political basis for a sustainable society.- 18. Virtues and values in science.- 19. Towards a sustainable future, en route with technology.- 20. Indicative spatial picture: a Dutch perspective.- The world we do or do not want.- 21. Conclusions and recommendations CLTM.- Notes on the authors.- Abbreviations.