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Saving the planet : how to shape an environmentally sustainable global economy / Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel.

Summary:

Describes an environmental research team's plan for a global economy.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393030709
  • ISBN: 9780393030709
  • ISBN: 0393308235
  • ISBN: 9780393308235
  • Physical Description: 224 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1991.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216) index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Uncover the lifeboats! -- The efficiency revolution -- Building a solar economy -- Reusing and recycling materials -- Protecting the biological base -- Grain for eight billion -- A stable world population -- From growth to sustainable progress -- Better indicators of human welfare -- Reshaping government incentives -- Green taxes -- Banking on the environment -- The struggle for a new world.
Subject:
Sustainable development.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Sustainable development.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library HD 75.6 .B76 1991 241453 Stacks Available -