Transcription of CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PART I. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS AN ANALYTICAL AND NORMATIVE CONCEPT I. What is SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ? SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is a central concept for our age. It is both a way of understanding the world and a method for solving global problems. This book offers you an INTRODUCTION to this fascinating and vital field of thought and action. Our starting point is our crowded planet. There are now billion people on the planet, roughly 9 times the 800 million people estimated to have lived in 1750, at the start of the industrial revolution.
make sense of the interactions of three complex systems: the world economy, the global society, and the Earth’s physical environment. How does an economy of 7.2 billion people, and $90 trillion Gross World Output, change over time? What causes economic growth? Why …
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