- Sustainable development, Développement durable, Economische groei, Aspect économique
This is a book about human population growth, carrying capacities, delayed feedbacks, our environmental impacts, and the possibilities of overshoot and collapse. -- Excerpt: "Any population-economy-environment system that has feedback delays and slow physical responses, that has thresholds and erosive mechanisms, is literally unmanageable.
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- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Earthscan Publications, Chelsea Green Pub. Co., McClelland and Stewart
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781853831317
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“"Twenty years ago we wrote a book called The Limits to Growth. It described the prospects for growth in the human population and the global economy during the coming century." (from the Preface)”
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer
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