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Cents And Sustainability:securing Our Common Future By Decoupling Economic Growth From Environmental Pressures,micbael H.smtib,karlon Cbarlie Hargroues by CBERYL DESBA, Michael H Smith, Karlson Hargroves, Cheryl Desha, Natural Edge Project, Michael H. Smith, Karlson "Charlie" Hargroves and Cheryl Desha, Smith, Michael H., Hargroves, Karlson 'Charlie', Desha, Cheryl is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'. The Brundtland Report argued that not only was it achievable, but that it was an urgent imperative in order to achieve a transition to sustainable development while significantly reducing poverty and driving 'clean and green' investment. With some still arguing for significantly slowing economic growth in order to reduce pressures on the environment, this new book, Cents and Sustainability, shows that it is possible to reconcile the need for economic growth and environmental sustainability through a strategy to decouple economic growth from environmental pressures, combined with a renewed commitment to achieve significant environmental restoration and poverty reduction. Beginning with a brief overview of some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, the book then explains 'decoupling theory', overviews a number of factors that can undermine and even block efforts to decouple in both developed and developing countries, and then discuss

Author

CBERYL DESBA, Michael H Smith, Karlson Hargroves, Cheryl Desha, Natural Edge Project, Michael H. Smith, Karlson "Charlie" Hargroves and Cheryl Desha, Smith, Michael H., Hargroves, Karlson 'Charlie', Desha, Cheryl

Publisher

Earthscan Ltd

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136532542

Subjects

Nature, Management, Economics