Global survival : the challenge and its implications for thinking and acting /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : SelectBooks, c2006.
Description:xii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Change the world
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5884465
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Other authors / contributors:Laszlo, Ervin, 1932-
Seidel, Peter, 1926-
ISBN:1590791045 (hardbound : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: A Sensible Way to Think and Act
  • Chapter 1. Survival Research: A New Discipline Needed Now
  • Chapter 2. On Human Survival: Reflections on Survival Research and Survival Policies
  • Chapter 3. World Population, Food, Natural Resources, and Survival
  • Chapter 4. Survival from the Brain's Perspective
  • Chapter 5. Biology is Destiny Only if We Ignore it
  • Chapter 6. Belief and Survival
  • Chapter 7. The Social Psychology of Sustainability
  • Chapter 8. The Need for a Planetary Ethic
  • Chapter 9. Rational Sustainability
  • Chapter 10. Seeing the Whole Picture
  • Chapter 11. What Can the Systems Community Contribute to Ensure the Survival of Civilization?
  • Chapter 12. Economics Weak and Strong: Ecological Economics and Human Survival
  • Chapter 13. Historical Perspectives on Global Ecology
  • Chapter 14. Governance Barriers to Sustainability
  • Chapter 15. Sustainability and Governmental Foresight
  • Chapter 16. Educating World Leaders
  • Chapter 17. A Primer of Civilization
  • Contributors
  • Index