Supply-Side Sustainability

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While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and hinders our ability to plan for the future.
Supply-Side Sustainability offers a fresh approach to this dilemma by integrating ecological and social science approaches in an interdisciplinary treatment of sustainability. Written by two ecologists and an anthropologist, this book discusses organisms, landscapes, populations, communities, biomes, the biosphere, ecosystems and energy flows, as well as patterns of sustainability and collapse in human societies, from hunter-gatherer groups to empires to today’s industrial world. These diverse topics are integrated within a new framework that translates the authors’ advances in hierarchy and complexity theory into a form useful to professionals in science, government, and business.
The result is a much-needed blueprint for a cost-effective management regime, one that makes problem-solving efforts themselves sustainable over time. The authors demonstrate that long-term, cost-effective resource management can be achieved by managing the contexts of productive systems, rather than by managing the commodities that natural systems produce.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2003
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 440 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231105878
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231105873
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.02 x 0.98 x 9.22 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #5,001,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,845 in Ecology (Books) #2,091 in Sustainable Business Development #2,646 in Business Development
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