Screen LibraryThe no-growth imperative：creating sustainable communities under ecological limits to growth
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 233 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415630146 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415630142 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415630153 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415630150 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203084014 (ebook) 0203084012 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | X22 |
| CLC: | X22-171.2 |
| Call Number: | X22-171.2/Z91-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-225) and index. Preface -- Requiem for the growth imperative -- The American community as a growth machine -- Rationales and strategies for stopping growth in America's communities -- The no-growth path to sustainability -- Envisioning no-growth communities -- Epilogue: ten difficult personal actions needed to save the world -- Notes -- Selected bibliography. More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge confronting us now is one of replacing the current growth imperative with a no-growth imperative. Gabor Zovanyi asserts that anything less than stopping growth would merely slow today's dramatic degrad |