Achieving global sustainability: policy recommendations
Achieving global sustainability: policy recommendations
- Tokyo United Nations University Press 2011
- xx, 343 p.
- Sustainability Science Series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Achieving Global Sustainability reviews the current status of global sustainability and analyses the relationship between globalization and sustainability, together with arguments on the necessity of a paradigm shift in economic growth. Paradigm shifts in socio-economic development are discussed in terms of social common capital, contemporary social discipline and economic valuation of the environment. The contributors also examine various strategies for achieving a sustainable society, among them a basic strategy for mitigating climate change, a strategy of technology development toward global sustainability, and a post-2012 international policy framework. The book presents methods of adaptation for environmental change, including integrated assessment models of climate change and a risk-assessment approach to seismic hazard mitigation. Policy recommendations for global sustainability are also introduced, including those advocating a low-carbon society by 2050, a “Green New Deal” as a means of integrating policies, climate security, and a new international discipline.
9789280811841
Economics
Sustainable development - Government policy
Sustainability - Government policy
Global environmental change - Government policy
Climatic changes - Government policy
338.927 / A2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Achieving Global Sustainability reviews the current status of global sustainability and analyses the relationship between globalization and sustainability, together with arguments on the necessity of a paradigm shift in economic growth. Paradigm shifts in socio-economic development are discussed in terms of social common capital, contemporary social discipline and economic valuation of the environment. The contributors also examine various strategies for achieving a sustainable society, among them a basic strategy for mitigating climate change, a strategy of technology development toward global sustainability, and a post-2012 international policy framework. The book presents methods of adaptation for environmental change, including integrated assessment models of climate change and a risk-assessment approach to seismic hazard mitigation. Policy recommendations for global sustainability are also introduced, including those advocating a low-carbon society by 2050, a “Green New Deal” as a means of integrating policies, climate security, and a new international discipline.
9789280811841
Economics
Sustainable development - Government policy
Sustainability - Government policy
Global environmental change - Government policy
Climatic changes - Government policy
338.927 / A2