Towards an ecologically sustainable growth society : physical foundations, economic transitions, and political constraints /

This book combines three disciplines - economics, physics and international business policy - in an attempt to answer the important questions whether sustainable development is possible and how it might be achieved. On the one hand, the concept of sustainability is subject to physical laws, on the o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fritsch, Bruno
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Schmidheiny, Stephan, 1947-, Seifritz, Walter
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1994]
Subjects:	Sustainable development. Environmental policy. Política ambiental. Umweltpolitik. Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Politische Ökologie. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Historical Developments
3. Evolution and Energy
4. Economic Growth and Ecological Sustainability
5. The Special Role of Electricity
6. Some Technical Steps Towards Sustainability
7. Ecoefficiency and the Entrepreneurial Factor
8. Summary and Conclusions.