The limits to growth : the 30-year update / Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows

By:

Meadows, Donella H

Contributor(s):

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781931498586

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Genre/Form:

Print books.

LOC classification:

HD75.6 .M435 2004

Contents:

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

Summary: [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

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BOOKS

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Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Alfaisal University On Shelf	Alfaisal University On Shelf	HD75.6 .M435 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	AU00000000012173

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-325) and index

[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