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.

  “The economy and the earth”;

• 2.

  “Signs of stress: climate & water”;

• 3.

  “Signs of stress: the biological base”;

• 4.

  “The shape of the eco-economy”;

• 5.

  “Building the solar/hydrogen economy”;

• 6.

  “Designing a new materials economy”;

• 7.

  “Feeding everyone well”;

• 8.

  “Protecting forest products & services”;

• 9.

  “Redesigning cities for people”;

• 10.

  “Stabilizing population by reducing fertility”;

• 11.

  “Tools for restructuring the economy”;

• 12.

  “Accelerating the transition”.

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