Overview
Addresses the political and behavioural as well as the scientific problems that we are facing today
Introduces the novel concepts of Planetary Quotas and the Planetary Accounting framework – the first scalable and actionable framework of planetary limits derived from the much-quoted Planetary Boundaries – in a comprehensible format for all levels of action.
Shows how every person can take responsibility as “kaitiaki” (stewards) of our planet.
Provides tangible details, helping the reader to understand how the novel elements of the book can be applied to real-world situations.
Extends for the first time the concept of carbon accounting to encompass other key global, scientifically derived, environmental limits
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (19 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Earth-System Science, Management Theory, and Environmental Accounting: The Disconnect
-
Front Matter
-
-
Developing Planetary Quotas
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
The book begins by summarising the science of climate change and introducing the notion of the Anthropocene – the “human age”. It highlights the importance of returning to and remaining within the Planetary Boundaries but shows that we can’t realistically do so unless we have a new approach to environmental accounting.
The book then outlines how Planetary Accounting furnishes this new approach by combining sustainability science, change theory, and environmental accounting to create a scalable framework for environmental management that encourages systemic and individual change.
The details of the science of and our human contribution to ten critical human pressures are then presented, and the book concludes with a guide for those seeking to apply Planetary Accounting in practice.
Planetary Accounting could form the scientific underpinning of behaviour change programs, guide the development of policy and regulations, and provide both the basis for environmental laws, and the foundation of future global environmental agreements.
It has been 50 years since the first views from space showed a blue planet alone in our solar system. This book is an historic opportunity to provide humanity for the first time with sufficient information to begin implementing Planetary Accounting.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He has written 20 books and over 300 papers on sustainable cities. Peter’s book with Jeff Kenworthy ‘Cities and Automobile Dependence (1989) has been described as ‘one of the most influential planning books of all time’ by Reid Ewing, Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport. Peter has worked in local government as an elected councilor, in state government as an advisor to three Premiers, and in the Australian Government on the Board of Infrastructure Australia and the Prime Minister’s Cities Reference Group. He is a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, is the Co-ordinating Lead Author on Transport for the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, and most recently published the book Resilient Cities: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence. He was the 2018/19 WA Scientist of the Year.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planetary Accounting
Book Subtitle: Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity
Authors: Kate Meyer, Peter Newman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1443-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1442-5Published: 11 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1445-6Published: 11 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1443-2Published: 10 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 278
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sustainable Development, Earth System Sciences, Development and Sustainability, Natural Resources, Environmental Management