Transcription of CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
Example: bankruptcy
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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. The world population continues to rise rapidly, by around 75-80 million people per year. Soon enough there will be 8 billion by the 2020s, and perhaps 9 billion by the early 2040s. These billions of people are looking for their foothold in the world economy. The poor are struggling to find the food, safe water, health care, and shelter they need for mere survival.
economic, social, environmental, and political – the special phenomena of complex systems, such as emergent behavior and strong, non-linear dynamics (including booms and busts) are all too apparent. Complex systems require a certain complexity of …
Loading..
Tags:
Information
Domain:
Source:
Link to this page:
Please notify us if you found a problem with this document: