Saving the planet :how to shape an environmentally sustainable global economy /Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel.

Name/Title

Saving the planet :how to shape an environmentally sustainable global economy /Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel.

Description

Uncover the lifeboats! -- The efficiency revolution -- Building a solar economy -- Reusing and recycling materials -- Protecting the biological base -- Grain for eight billion -- A stable world population -- From growth to sustainable progress -- Better indicators of human welfare -- Reshaping government incentives -- Green taxes -- Banking on the environment -- The struggle for a new world. 224 p. ;21 cm.

Book Details

Author

Brown, Lester R.

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

circa 1991

Publication Subjects

Sustainable development. Economic development--Environmental aspects. Environmental policy.

Call No.

HD75.6 .B76 1991

ISBN

0393030709, 0393308235 (pbk.)

LCCN

91024623 //r93

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-216) index.