The limits to growth :
Meadows, Donella H
The limits to growth : the 30-year update / Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows - xxii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-325) and index
Overshoot -- The driving force: exponential growth -- The limits: sources and sinks -- World3: the dynamics of growth in a finite world -- Back from beyond the limits: the ozone story -- Technology, markets, and overshoot -- Transitions to a sustainable system -- Tools for the transition to sustainability
[This book] brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of over-shoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes compellingly clear the vital need for a sustainability revolution.-Dust jacket
9781931498586
2004000125
Economic development--Environmental aspects
Population--Economic aspects
Pollution--Economic aspects
Sustainable development
Print books.
HD75.6 / .M435 2004
The limits to growth : the 30-year update / Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows - xxii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-325) and index
Overshoot -- The driving force: exponential growth -- The limits: sources and sinks -- World3: the dynamics of growth in a finite world -- Back from beyond the limits: the ozone story -- Technology, markets, and overshoot -- Transitions to a sustainable system -- Tools for the transition to sustainability
[This book] brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of over-shoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes compellingly clear the vital need for a sustainability revolution.-Dust jacket
9781931498586
2004000125
Economic development--Environmental aspects
Population--Economic aspects
Pollution--Economic aspects
Sustainable development
Print books.
HD75.6 / .M435 2004