Greening the north : a post-industrial blueprint for ecology and equity / Wolfgang Sachs, Reinhard Loske and Manfred Linz ; with Ralf Behrensmeier [and others] ; translated by Timothy Nevill.

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Main Author: Sachs, Wolfgang
Corporate Author: Wuppertal Institut fu˜r Klima, Umwelt und Energie
Other Authors: Loske, Reinhard, Linz, Manfred, 1927-
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: London : Zed, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Guidelines
  • Sustainable Development
  • The Concept of Environmental Space: Ecology and Equity
  • From pollution control to reduction of inputs
  • Justice as a guideline for international environmental policy
  • Environmental Indicators: Measuring Environmental Space
  • Why indicators?
  • What indicators?
  • A preventive system of environmental indicators
  • Targets
  • Targets for Risk Containment: Cutting Pollution
  • Global warming
  • Acidification and nutrient deposition from the atmosphere
  • Summer smog
  • Water pollution through agriculture
  • Targets for Risk Prevention: Reducing Extraction
  • Energy
  • Materials
  • Water
  • Land use
  • A Set of Environmental Targets
  • Stock-Taking
  • Structures of Environmental Consumption
  • Consumption of raw materials
  • Energy consumption
  • Water use
  • Land utilization
  • Selected emissions
  • How the North Lays Claim to the South's Environmental Space
  • Climate change and destruction of the ozone layer
  • Exploitation and pollution of the oceans
  • Ecological rucksacks in German raw material imports
  • Commercial exploitation of biodiversity in the South
  • Paradigms
  • Moderation in Time and Space
  • Slower speeds and shorter distances
  • Designing for moderate speeds
  • Emphasizing regional scale
  • Electronics instead of traffic?
  • A Green Market Agenda
  • No reason for market euphoria
  • Demarcating the market
  • Market and sustainability
  • Steering with taxes
  • From Linear to Cyclical Production Processes
  • Material cycles.