Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth

Citation

(2003), "Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 4 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2003.24904aae.004

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth

Lester R. BrownWorldwatch Institute2002

Eco-Economy provides a vision of an environmentally-sustainable economy along with a roadmap on how to get from here to there. Chapters include:

1. 1.

   “The economy and the earth”;

2. 2.

   “Signs of stress: climate & water”;

3. 3.

   “Signs of stress: the biological base”;

4. 4.

   “The shape of the eco-economy”;

5. 5.

   “Building the solar/hydrogen economy”;

6. 6.

   “Designing a new materials economy”;

7. 7.

   “Feeding everyone well”;

8. 8.

   “Protecting forest products & services”;

9. 9.

   “Redesigning cities for people”;

10. 10.

    “Stabilizing population by reducing fertility”;

11. 11.

    “Tools for restructuring the economy”;

12. 12.

    “Accelerating the transition”.

Available for free at: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html