Reuniting economy and ecology in sustainable development /
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| Author / Creator: | Beaton, Russ. |
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| Imprint: | Boca Raton, Fla. : Lewis Publishers, 1999. |
| Description: | x, 108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sustainable community development series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4218412 |
Table of Contents:
- Editor's Note
- Authors
- 1. Origins of Sustainability
- Beginning Perspectives
- Modern Origins of the Growth Debate
- The Problem and Its Crisis
- Science and the Natural World
- Questioning the Economics of Growth
- The Institutional and Political Imperative
- Toward a Philosophy of Sufficiency
- Summarizing and Looking Forward
- 2. Economics from the Ground Up
- Background
- In Search of Community Economic Theory
- Some Historic Economic Phases
- Cave Economics
- Tribal Economics
- Village Economics
- City Economics
- National Economics
- Global Economics
- Summing Up
- 3. Visioning, Counting, and Valuing
- Two Economic Visions
- The Throughput Economy
- Resource Endowments
- Waste Disposal
- The Spaceship Earth Model
- Assessing the Scorecard
- Three Problems with Gross Domestic Product
- Attempting to Change
- The Language of Values
- Two Broad Categories
- Alternative World Views
- The Pyramid of Values
- Demand and Values--A Final Note
- 4. Recognizing the Growth Ethic in Your Community
- Economics of Looking at Your Community
- What Are the Costs of Growth?
- Who Pays and Who Benefits?
- Recognizing the Rhetoric
- Prosperity Begins at Home
- Don't You Appreciate Cultural Diversity?
- Think of Your Children
- Livability and the Price of Housing
- The Landowner as King
- Slow versus Rapid Growth
- Conclusion
- A Personal Note
- 5. Recycling in Theory and Practice
- Recycling in Practice
- Recycling as Impossibility-Irreversibility
- The Symbolism of Recycling
- An Example: Seeing Things Whole
- Extracting the Principles
- 6. Toward Practical Use of Sustainability
- A Citizen's Simulation
- Practical Difficulties with Conceptual Sustainability
- Why Does It Matter?
- The Political "Middle Way"
- Marginal Sustainability
- 7. Globalization and Sustainability
- Globalization Is Here, Now, and Real
- Profits: The Driving Force Behind Globalization
- Prospecting for Profits
- Financial Feeding Frenzy
- The Defense of Globalization
- Sustainability versus Globalization
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
