Handbook for a sustainable economy / Roberto Bermejo.
Since the 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, the looming prospect of Earth's changing climate has inspired a broad movement dedicated to a sustainable future. In this Handbook, the author explains the elements of a sustainable economy, the development of which must be undertaken i...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Critical review of the orthodox economy
- 1 paradigms
- 2 the commodification of nature and its consequences
- 3 Foundations and instruments of environmental economics
- 4 Free market and sustainability
- 5 Sustainable development in the Brundtland report and its distortion
- Part II Principles and instruments for sustainability
- 6 Sustainability of social-economical systems
- 7 Sustainability
- 8 Instruments for sustainability: strategic planning and ecological tax reform
- 9 Science and technology for sustainability
- Part III Sustainable production and consumption
- 10 The limits of fossil fuels
- 11 Repercussions of the end of the oil age
- 12 Towards sustainable transport at the end of the fossil fuels era
- 13 Solar economy elements
- 14 Renewable hydrogen economy
- 15 Societies in energy emergency
- 16 Circular economy
- 17 Industrial ecology
- 18 Basis for an eco-effective and integrated product strategy
- 19 Sustainable consumption
- Part IV Evaluation of transformability
- 20 Overall evaluation of transformability and its trend.