An edition of The post carbon reader
(2010)
The post carbon reader
managing the 21st century's sustainability crises
by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch
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Environmental economics, Climatic changes, Government policy, Energy development, Sustainable development, Environmental aspects, Renewable energy sources, Economic development, Environmental protection, Environmental justice, Hubbert peak theory, Environmental degradation, Human ecology, Energy policy| Edition | Availability |
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The post carbon reader: managing the 21st century's sustainability crises
2010, Watershed Media, Post Carbon Institute, Distributed by the University of California Press
in English
0970950063 9780970950062
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Asher Miller
Preface / Daniel Lerch
Beyond the limits to growth / Richard Heinberg
What is sustainability? / Richard Heinberg
Thinking "resilience" / William E. Rees
A new world / Bill McKibben
The international response to climate change / Richard Douthwaite
The ecological deficit : creating a new political framework / David Orr
Water : adapting to a new normal / Sandra Postel
Peak nature? / Stephanie Mills
Getting fossil fuels off the plate / Michael Bomford
Takling the oldest environmental problem : agriculture and its impact on soil / Wes Jackson
Growing community food systems / Erika Allen
Population : the multiplier of everything else / William N. Ryerson
Dangerously addictive : why we are biologically ill-suited to the riches of modern America / Peter C. Whybrow
Remapping relationships : humans in nature / Gloria Flora
The human nature of unsustainability / William E. Rees
Making sense of peak oil and energy uncertainty / Daniel Lerch
Hydrocarbons in North America / J. David Hughes
Nine challenges of alternative energy / David Fridley
Peak oil and the great recession / Tom Whipple
Ecological economics / Joshua Farley
Money and energy / Richard Douthwaite
The competitiveness of local living economies / Michael H. Shuman
The death of sprawl : designing urban resilience for the twenty-first-century resource and climate crises / Warren Karlenzig
Smart decline in post-carbon cities : the Buffalo Commons meets Buffalo, New York / Deborah E. Popper and Frank J. Popper
Toward zero-carbon buildings / Hillary Brown
Local government in a time of peak oil and climate change / John Kaufmann
Transportation in the post-carbon world / Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl
Climate change, peak oil, and the end of waste / Bill Sheehan and Helen Spiegelman
Human health and well-being in an era of energy scarcity and climate change / Cindy L. Parker and Brian S. Schwartz
Smart by nature : schooling for sustainability / Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow
Community colleges : a vital resource for education in the post-carbon era / Nancy Lee Wood
Personal preparation / Chris Martenson
What can communities do? / Rob Hopkins
What now? : the path forward begins with one step / Asher Miller.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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