TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgins,Karen L.
ED  - ScienceDirect eBooks.
TI  - Economic growth and sustainability: systems thinking for a complex world 
SN  - 9780128031087
AV  - HC79.E5 .H544 2015eb
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Amsterdam [Netherlands]
PB  - Academic Press
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - System theory
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Conservation of Natural Resources
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
N2  - How to sustain our world for future generations has perplexed us for centuries. We have reached a crossroads: we may choose the rocky path of responsibility or continue on the paved road of excess that promises hardship for our progeny. Independent efforts to resolve isolated issues are inadequate. Different from these efforts and from other books on the topic, this book uses systems thinking to understand the dominant forces that are shaping our hope for sustainability. It first describes a mental model - the bubble that holds our beliefs - that emerges from preponderant world views and expl
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