Unsustainable World: Are We Losing the Battle to Save Our Planet?

ISBN-13: 9781032058580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 398 str.

Peter N. Nemetz

Opis

Using a cross-disciplinary, science and economics-based approach, this book provides a sobering and comprehensive assessment of the multifaceted barriers to achieving sustainability at a global level. It introduces students and general readers to the challenges of sustainability and the environmental difficulties facing humanity today.

Recenzje

"A book with cutting-edge industry and sector data and observations, informing existing and future scholarly work, practitioners and organizations on key issues and challenges in sustainability. Thought-provoking, with highly intellectual material to generate fundamental questions and critiques around sustainability matters, practices and conceptualizations."

Iva Bimpli, Lecturer, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom

"When one is guided by science, the way forward for humankind is not a rosy path-it is a path marred by unnecessary ecological degradation and irresponsible resource draw-down. Peter Nemetz's new work removes some of the varnish that otherwise obscures the precarious vista that humanity now faces. It gives us cause for far deeper reflection regarding our common fate on this planet."

Scott Valentine, Professor of Regenerative Planning and Circular Economy, Director of Research Promotions Office, Kyushu University, Japan

"Using an economic-business-based approach, this book presents the unvarnished scientific facts that describe the dimensions of global ecological change conveying a critical message to humankind: unless drastic action is undertaken to change how economic systems relate to nature, the survival of our way of life in this planet is in serious jeopardy."

Miguel A. Altieri, Professor Emeritus of Agroecology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Spis treści

PART I: Introduction and Critical Concepts Chapter 1: Introduction: The Nature of the Challenge Chapter 2: The Economics-Ecology Nexus PART II: Greenhouse-Gas-Intensive Sectors Chapter 3: Unsustainable Industry Chapter 4: Unsustainable Automobility Chapter 5: Unsustainable Agriculture Chapter 6: Agriculture and the Existential Threat of Climate Change PART III: Quid Nunc? Solutions, Conditional Solutions and Non-Solutions Chapter 7: Hi-Tech Transportation Chapter 8: Nuclear Power Chapter 9: Renewable Energy: Prospects and Challenges Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Narrowing Path to Sustainability Chapter 11: Pandemics and Sustainability

O autorze

Peter N. Nemetz received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and is Professor Emeritus of Strategy and Business Economics in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada. For twenty-nine years he held a visiting research position in the Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He has published more than one hundred books, academic articles, and consulting reports in the areas of natural disaster economics, natural resource and environmental economics and policy, international business, sustainability, and epidemiology.