Global survival : the challenge and its implications for thinking and acting /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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 |
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