This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development, proposing new organizational solutions to deal with the crisis of sustainability. Crisis of Global Sustainability provides for the first time a compact insider description of the evolution and impact of the Club of Rome, a global think tank that produced a groundbreaking 1972 study The Limits to Growth which highlighted the dangers of unrestrained economic growth and possible collapse of global economy during the first decades of the 21st century. With recent research confirming the validity of these concerns, Kanninen asks whether our overarching concept of thinking on world development today should continue to be global sustainability , which implies that we still have enough time to make adjustments in our future policies and action. Or should the main paradigm of our thinking shift to global survivability , a concept that stresses the absolute necessity of immediate and drastic change both in institutions and policies? Many environmentalists, green politicians and think tanks are speaking today more loudly than ever about the necessity for a major policy, institutional and paradigm change and this work is essential reading for students and scholars alike.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415694179
eBay Product ID (ePID)
129251633
Product Key Features
Author
Tapio Kanninen
Publication Name
Crisis of Global Sustainability
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
188 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Item Weight
118g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Tapio Kanninen
Series Title
Global Institutions
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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