02371cam a22004334i 4500 591622 591622 54035081 US-DLC 20180605101941.0 040113s2004 vtua b 001 0 eng 2004000125 1931498512 9781931498517 193149858X 9781931498586 (OCoLC)54035081 DLC rda DLC MUQ Z$3 BAKER NLGGC UBA YDXCP BTCTA UQ1 MOF IG# eng pcc Alfaisal Main Library HD75.6 .M435 2004 Meadows, Donella H The limits to growth : the 30-year update / Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows White River Junction, Vt : Chelsea Green Publishing Company, [2004] ©2004 xxii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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 Economic development Environmental aspects Population Economic aspects Pollution Economic aspects Sustainable development local 4 Print books. Randers, Jørgen Meadows, Dennis L lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2018-06-05 0 HD75.6 .M435 2004 AU00000000012173 2018-06-05 00:00:00 160.00 2018-06-05 BOOKS