The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Long-term environmental policy: towards a sustainable future

      • Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

      Pages 2-18

3. Signs of Hope

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Signs of hope for the 21st century?

      • Ernst U. von Weizsäcker, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek

      Pages 20-45

4. The Transformation to a Sustainable Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Socialization of environmental policy objectives: tools for environmental marketing

      • Peter Ester, Tjitse Mandemaker

      Pages 48-83

   3. Management of environmental policy networks

      • Hans de Bruijn, Ernst ten Heuvelhof

      Pages 84-111

   4. The science/public-policy dialogue on long-term environmental planning

      • Jacques Geurts, Johanna Kasperkovitz

      Pages 112-144

5. Internationalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. The environment as a security issue

      • Renat Perelet

      Pages 146-173

   3. Sustainability — a new challenge for Japan?

      • Eric-Jan Tuininga

      Pages 174-202

   4. International decision-making on sustainability

      • Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

      Pages 204-217

   5. International views on long-term environmental policy

      • Gerrit H. Vonkeman, Peter Maxson

      Pages 218-249

6. Philosophical and Methodological Considerations on Planning the Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Environmental policy in transformation: a philosophical approach

      • Petran Kockelkoren, Wouter Achterberg, Hans Achterhuis, Ko van der Wal

      Pages 252-275

   3. Trends and discontinuities: their relevance for sustainable development strategies

      • Bert de Vries

      Pages 276-313

7. Contours of a Sustainable Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 315-315

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   2. An ecologically sustainable biosphere

      • Pier Vellinga, Rudolf de Groot, Richard Klein

      Pages 316-348

   3. Decrease of population growth: a condition for a sustainable future

      • Jeroen van Ginneken, Albertine van Diepen

      Pages 350-371

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed? In this book, the Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy, an expert advisory board to the Dutch Minister of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, shows possible ways in which society can move towards a sustainable future.
The book goes in search of a new social order, an order in which sustainability is guaranteed. This search holds four main elements:

• signs of hope: which positive initiatives and developments exist which will lead to a sustainable future?
• transformations: which transformations are needed to reach a sustainable future?
  
• philosophical and methodological reflections: can one predict the future?
  
• institutions: what are the necessary changes in the basic institutions of society to reach a sustainable future?

The committee has invited well-known experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to check the existing social order from a point of sustainability and to give recommendations for a sustainable future. The central conclusion is that we are in need of an evolving green strategy aimed at sustainability. The contours of this strategy are described and a large set of recommendations to reach a sustainable future are given. As the committee states: `There is no certainty and no statistical probability for a sustainable future, but there is at least a chance.'

• development
• marketing
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• sustainable economy

• The Hague, The Netherlands

  Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

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