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Unsustainable World
Are We Losing the Battle to Save Our Planet?
Langbeschreibung
Using a cross-disciplinary, science and economics-based approach, this book provides a sobering and comprehensive assessment of the multifaceted barriers to achieving sustainability at a global level. It introduces students and general readers to the challenges of sustainability and the environmental difficulties facing humanity today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I: Introduction and Critical Concepts Chapter 1: Introduction: The Nature of the Challenge Chapter 2: The Economics-Ecology Nexus PART II: Greenhouse-Gas-Intensive Sectors Chapter 3: Unsustainable Industry Chapter 4: Unsustainable Automobility Chapter 5: Unsustainable Agriculture Chapter 6: Agriculture and the Existential Threat of Climate Change PART III: Quid Nunc? Solutions, Conditional Solutions and Non-Solutions Chapter 7: Hi-Tech Transportation Chapter 8: Nuclear Power Chapter 9: Renewable Energy: Prospects and Challenges Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Narrowing Path to Sustainability Chapter 11: Pandemics and Sustainability
Peter N. Nemetz received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and is Professor Emeritus of Strategy and Business Economics in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada. For twenty-nine years he held a visiting research position in the Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He has published more than one hundred books, academic articles, and consulting reports in the areas of natural disaster economics, natural resource and environmental economics and policy, international business, sustainability, and epidemiology.
ISBN-13:
9781000540888
Veröffentl:
2022
Seiten:
418
Autor:
Peter N. Nemetz
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
0 - No protection
Sprache:
Englisch
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