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Earth at risk : natural capital and the quest for sustainability / Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana.

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by Henry, Claude, author.
Call Number 338.927 23
Publication Date 2018
Summary We are squandering our planet's natural capital - its biodiversity, water and soil, and energy sources - at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though technology has been one of the drivers of the current trend of unsustainable development, it is also one of the essential tools for remedying it. Earth at Risk maps out the necessary transition to sustainability, detailing the innovations in technology, along with law, science, institutional design, and economics, that can and must be put to use to avert environmental catastrophe. Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana begin with a measure of the costs of ecological damage-the erosion of biodiversity; air, water, and soil pollution; and the wide-reaching effects of climate change-and then consider the solutions that are either now available or close on the horizon that may lead to a more sustainable global trajectory. What market-based tools can be used to promote clean growth? How can renewable energy help us decrease our use of fossil fuels? Is international agreement on climate goals possible? Henry and Tubiana tackle a range of urgent questions, emphasizing possibilities for-and obstacles to-implementation and action. Building on the experience of the most significant climate negotiation of the decade, they show what a world organized along the principles of sustainability could look like.
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Cities and the environment : new approaches for eco-societies / edited by Takashi Inoguchi, Edward Newman, and Glen Paoletto.

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by Inoguchi, Takashi.
Call Number 304.2091732 21
Publication Date 1999
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Learning from the global financial crisis [electronic resource] : creatively, reliably, and sustainably / edited by Paul Shrivastava and Matt Statler.

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by Shrivastava, Paul.
Call Number 330.90511 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary This title is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver lining - that political leaders, economists, and management scholars might seize this opportunity to reflect critically on the assumptions, practices, and infrastructures that have precipitated the crisis and to imagine and create new forms of organization that sustainably enhance the well-being of global stakeholders.
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