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Growth without Ecodisasters?

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Nicholas Polunin

    1. International Conferences on Environmental Future, Geneva, Switzerland

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction: Economic Growth and the Biosphere

    • Jan Tinbergen, Donald J. Kuenen
    Pages 1-27

  4. Whither Terrestrial Ecosystems and Habitats?

    • F. Raymond Fosberg
    Pages 61-93

  5. Whither Fresh Waters and Their Biota?

    • Letitia E. Obeng, Arthur D. Hasler
    Pages 95-133

  6. Whither the Oceans and Salt Seas?

    • Edward D. Goldberg, Sidney J. Holt
    Pages 135-169

  7. The Pandominance Of Man

    • Stanley P. Johnson
    Pages 171-207

  8. Dangerous Devegetation and Monocultures

    • Sturla Fridriksson
    Pages 209-232

  9. Extreme Urbanization Effects and Dangers

    • Pierre Laconte
    Pages 233-259

  10. Whither the Life-Support System?

    • Eugene P. Odum, Eldon H. Franz
    Pages 261-290

  11. Agriculture and World Feeding Alternatives

    • Georg Borgstrom
    Pages 291-340

  12. Environmental Aspects of Energy Alternatives

    • Amasa S. Bishop, Claude G. Ducret
    Pages 341-376

  13. Industrial Alternatives: Non-Waste Technology

    • Michael G. Royston
    Pages 377-406

  14. Scarcities and Societal Objectives

    • Claire Russell, W. M. S. Russell
    Pages 407-443

  15. Life-Style Alternatives

    • E. F. Schumacher, Nicholas Guppy
    Pages 445-475

  17. Ethics of Biospheral Survival

    • Beatrice E. Willard, Emmanuel O. A. Asibey, Martin W. Holdgate, Yoichi Fukushima, Elizabeth David, Dodson Gray
    Pages 503-551

  18. Common Laws for Earth and Mankind

    • Gary L. Widman, Gunnar G. Schram
    Pages 553-579

  19. Conclusions for the Future

    • F. Kenneth Hare
    Pages 581-610

  20. Baer-Huxley Memorial Lecture

    • Maurice F. Strong
    Pages 611-628
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Editors and Affiliations

  • International Conferences on Environmental Future, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nicholas Polunin

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Growth without Ecodisasters?

  • Editors: Nicholas Polunin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03680-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-03680-6Published: 30 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 675

  • Topics: Environmental Management

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