The No-growth Imperative: Creating Sustainable Communities Under Ecological Limits to Growth
- ISBN-10
- 0415630142
- ISBN-13
- 9780415630146
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 233
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Gabor Zovanyi
Description
Mounting evidence reveals that the existing scale of human enterprise has already surpassed global ecological limits to growth. This ecological reality clearly counteracts the possibility of continued exponential growth in the twenty-first century. In the absence of international, national, or state initiatives to implement a no-growth imperative founded on ecological limits, this book takes the position that local communities have an obligation to take the lead in promoting a new politics of sustainability directed at recognizing and...
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