Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Growth Society
Physical Foundations, Economic Transitions, and Political Constraints
Authors: Fritsch, Bruno, Schmidheiny, Stephan, Seifritz, Walter
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This book is the work of three specialists from the field of Economics (B.F), Business (S.S.) and the Natural Sciences (W.S.). While each chapter concentrates more or less on one or other of these areas, with varying degrees of complexity, it is hoped that the readers whatever their background will fmd something of value in each section, in particular those outside their own disciplines. The authors believe that such cross fertilization of ideas will become increasingly needed in the coming development of a sustainable growth society and it is therefore their hope that this book, as a first example of its kind, will thereby contribute in an interdisciplinary way to the general understanding of the issues of sustainable growth. The authors divided their main contributions to the book as follows: Bruno Fritsch Chapters 1,2,3,4,5 and 8 Stephan Schmidheiny Chapter 7 Walter Seifritz Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 6 They would like to thank in particular Lloyd Timberlake for his editorial advice and his assistance on chapter 7. Special thanks are due to Irena Kusar for preparing the original figures and diagrams and to the Paul Scherrer Institute for permission to use the illustration, printing and copying facilities during preparation of the manuscript. They would also like to thank Richard Stratton for assembling, typing and correcting the text, editing and final layout and for his helpful advice and contributions to organising the presentation of the material.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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Historical Developments
Pages 11-36
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Evolution and Energy
Pages 37-53
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Economic Growth and Ecological Sustainability
Pages 55-75
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The Special Role of Electricity
Pages 77-93
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Growth Society
- Book Subtitle
- Physical Foundations, Economic Transitions, and Political Constraints
- Authors
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- Bruno Fritsch
- Stephan Schmidheiny
- Walter Seifritz
- Copyright
- 1994
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin ยท Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-78742-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-78742-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-78744-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 198
- Topics
