Reconsidering The Limits To Growth

Author : Viktor Sadovnichy,Askar Akaev,Ilya Ilyin,Sergey Malkov,Leonid Grinin,Andrey Korotayev
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031349997

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Reconsidering the Limits to Growth by Viktor Sadovnichy,Askar Akaev,Ilya Ilyin,Sergey Malkov,Leonid Grinin,Andrey Korotayev Pdf

Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and understanding of these limits have significantly changed. This book highlights that the evolution of the World System has approached a new critical milestone, moving into a fundamentally new phase of historical development, when the old economic and social technologies no longer work as efficiently as before or even begin to function counterproductively, which leads the World System into a systemic crisis. The book discusses the transition of human society to a new phase state, the shape of which has not yet been determined. New approaches are needed for both, for the analysis of the global situation, and for forecasts. The book is based on an integrated approach including the world-systems, historical and evolutionary perspectives, as well as a systematic view of society, in which changes in one subsystem cause transformations in others. Through mathematical modeling, it defines the main vectors of transformations of the World System; makes a detailed forecast of the development of all the main subsystems of the society and the World System, while presenting horizons of changes from short-term to ultra-long-term; and presents different development scenarios as well as recommendations on how to achieve a transition to the most favorable scenario. The book will appeal to members and followers of the Club of Rome, policy-makers, as well as to scholars from various disciplines interested in a better understanding of the World System evolution, global futures, development studies, climate change, and future societies.

Author : Donella H. Meadows
Publisher : New York : Universe Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0876631650

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The Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows Pdf

New York: Universe Books, [1972].

Author : Leonid Grinin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031567643

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Cybernetic Revolution and Global Aging by Leonid Grinin Pdf

Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199844951

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Shrinking the Earth by Donald Worster Pdf

The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the lands of the New World, proved tragic for some, triumphant for others, and powerfully affecting for all. In this work, acclaimed environmental historian Donald Worster takes a global view in his examination of the ways in which complex issues of worldwide abundance and scarcity have shaped American society and behavior over three centuries. Looking at the limits nature imposes on human ambitions, he questions whether America today is in the midst of a shift from a culture of abundance to a culture of limits--and whether American consumption has become reliant on the global South. Worster engages with key political, economic, and environmental thinkers while presenting his own interpretation of the role of capitalism and government in issues of wealth, abundance, and scarcity. Acknowledging the earth's agency throughout human history, Shrinking the Earth offers a compelling explanation of how we have arrived where we are and a hopeful way forward on a planet that is no longer as large as it once was.

Author : Konstantinos Andriotis
Publisher : CABI
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789245073

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Issues and Cases of Degrowth in Tourism by Konstantinos Andriotis Pdf

Degrowth in tourism is the voluntary shift to rebuild destinations and local economies in a way in which consumption, production and the exploitation of resources are minimal. It looks to ensure that the direction of institutional changes and the orientation of technological development are controlled and in harmony with the environment. Degrowth involves people whose use of personal time enhances the richness of the tourism experience through travelling less frequently, more slowly and in a low carbon way; taking time to support the environment, the local economy and to explore the local culture. Despite the significant role degrowth can play in destination development, it has rarely been examined from a tourism studies perspective. This book takes steps to address the paucity of combined research on tourism and degrowth by presenting emergent knowledge and research on this increasingly important concept.

Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108470971

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Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh Pdf

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

Author : Simin Davoudi,Ali Madanipour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317818144

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Reconsidering Localism by Simin Davoudi,Ali Madanipour Pdf

"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come to shape urban governance and urban planning. Moving beyond the UK, this book examines localism and similar shifts in planning policy throughout Europe, and features essays on localism and place-making, sustainability, social cohesion, and citizen participation in community institutions. It explores how debates over localism and citizen control play out at the neighborhood, institutional and city level, and has come to effect the urban landscape throughout Europe. Reconsidering Localism is a current, vital addition to planning scholarship.

Author : Daniel S. Lucks
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807029985

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Reconsidering Reagan by Daniel S. Lucks Pdf

2021 Prose Award Finalist A long-overdue and sober examination of President Ronald Reagan’s racist politics that continue to harm communities today and helped shape the modern conservative movement. Ronald Reagan is hailed as a transformative president and an American icon, but within his twentieth-century politics lies a racial legacy that is rarely discussed. Both political parties point to Reagan as the “right” kind of conservative but fail to acknowledge his political attacks on people of color prior to and during his presidency. Reconsidering Reagan corrects that narrative and reveals how his views, policies, and actions were devastating for Black Americans and racial minorities, and that the effects continue to resonate today. Using research from previously untapped resources including the Black press which critically covered Reagan’s entire political career, Daniel S. Lucks traces Reagan’s gradual embrace of conservatism, his opposition to landmark civil rights legislation, his coziness with segregationists, and his skill in tapping into white anxiety about race, riding a wave of “white backlash” all the way to the Presidency. He argues that Reagan has the worst civil rights record of any President since the 1920s—including supporting South African apartheid, packing courts with conservatives, targeting laws prohibiting discrimination in education and housing, and launching the “War on Drugs”—which had cataclysmic consequences on the lives of Black and Brown people. Linking the past to the present, Lucks expertly examines how Reagan set the blueprint for President Trump and proves that he is not an anomaly, but in fact the logical successor to bring back the racially tumultuous America that Reagan conceptualized.

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262042833

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Growth by Vaclav Smil Pdf

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities—developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities. He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.

Author : Dennis Pirages And Ken Cousins
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 8171885543

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From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security Exploring New Limits to Growth by Dennis Pirages And Ken Cousins Pdf

Author : Gary Andres,Paul Hernnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317346678

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Lobbying Reconsidered by Gary Andres,Paul Hernnson Pdf

Lobbying Reconsidered: Politics Under the Influence, reveals how lobbying is a complex process that involves more than just relationships, friends, access, favors, and influence. This book offers a broader perspective on this important dimension of American public policymaking. As a person who straddles the worlds of Washington insider and interest group scholar, author Gary Andres hopes to use his experience and insight in in the lobbying world to help readers navigate beyond the conventional wisdom, and guide them to a deeper, broader understanding.

Author : Alec Cairncross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136589584

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Britain's Economic Prospects Reconsidered by Alec Cairncross Pdf

This book is a sequal to Britain's Economic Prospects, the report issued in 1968 by the Brookings Institution and universally accepted as the most thorough and comprehensive study of the British Economy to have ever appeared. Two years later, just after the British General election, six fo the American economists who prepared the Brookings Report met with a number of other leading economists from Britain and the United States, at a weekend conference at Ditchley Park, to review the findings of the report. Papers submitted to the conference by four of the British Economists (R.C.C. Matthews, G.D.N. Worswick, E.H. Phelps Brown and M.V. Posner) covered the same ground as the Brookings Report - the role of demand management, trade and balance-of-payments problems, labour policies, and industrial policies. The conference also had before it a fifth paper, on fiscal policy and stabilization, which took issue with some of the views expressed in the Brookings report. These papers form the core of this book, which also contains an account of the conference discussions and concluding reflections by its Chairman, Sir Alec Cairncross, formerly Chief Economic Adviser to H.M. Government. Britain's Economic Prospects Reconsidered is neither a detailed critique of the Brookings Report nor a rejoinder to it, but rather an attempt to reassess British performance and policies in the light of experience since devaluation. Its central concern is the question of why economic growth in Britain since the war has been slower than in other countries. This book was first published in 1971.

Author : Alexander K. Cairncross
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1972-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791498316

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Britain's Economic Prospects Reconsidered by Alexander K. Cairncross Pdf

Author : Graeme Hayes,Sikina Jinnah,Prakash Kashwan,David M. Konisky,Sherilyn Macgregor,John M. Meyer,Anthony R. Zito
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000552232

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Trajectories in Environmental Politics by Graeme Hayes,Sikina Jinnah,Prakash Kashwan,David M. Konisky,Sherilyn Macgregor,John M. Meyer,Anthony R. Zito Pdf

This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to oversights and silences, and the marginalisation of important forms of analysis and thought. As several chapters in the book explore, problem-solving frameworks have increasingly taken away space from more radical systemic challenge and critique, as the key themes of environmental politics have become ever more central to the field of politics as a whole – and as our understandings of social and environmental crisis become ever clearer and more urgent. The second purpose of the volume is to map out a series of new and developing agendas for environmental politics. The chapters in this volume focus foremost on questions of justice, materiality, and power. Discussing state violence, multispecies justice, epistemic injustice, the circular economy, NGOs, parties, green transition, and urban climate governance, they call above all for greater attention to intersectionality and interdisciplinarity, and for centering key insights about power relations and socio-economic inequalities into increasingly widespread, yet also often depoliticised, topics in the study of environmental politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Author : Friedrich Hinterberger,Elke Pirgmaier,Elisabeth Freytag,Martina Schuster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136505997

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Growth in Transition by Friedrich Hinterberger,Elke Pirgmaier,Elisabeth Freytag,Martina Schuster Pdf

Stimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy responses to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. However, are the current policy approaches capable of tackling these problems by generating win-win solutions or are they the root causes of these problems? The current growth trajectory has neither lead to a reduction of our overall resource use – as we use resources and energy more efficiently we consume more – nor create the conditions for employment and well-being. Increasingly, there is the realization that it is necessary to make substantial interventions into our national economies and create better framework conditions and incentive systems in order to more widely and rapidly develop and disseminate workable, innovative solutions for realizing sustainable development. This is the task of politics, and the concrete design of the measures must be built upon a broad public debate and shared long-term visions. The authors of this book intend to trigger a dialogue among stakeholders about how we can shape this transformation process towards sustainability. Following a detailed presentation of the key arguments for reconsidering the necessary conditions for sustainable economies, an international cast of commentators from politics, administration, civil society, business and science engage with the central question: is there an alternative trajectory for Western economies that sustains wellbeing whilst confronting ecological and social breakdown?