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Life in 2030 - Exploring a Sustainable Future for Canada

English · Hardback

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John B. Robinson is the director of the SustainableDevelopment Research Institute and a professor in the Department ofGeography at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor ofManaging Natural Resources in British Columbia: Markets,Regulations, and Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1995) andAchieving Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1996).

List of contents








Preface / Jon Tinker

1. Exploring a Sustainable Future for Canada / John B. Robinsonand D. Scott Slocombe

2. The Sustainable Society Project / John B. Robinson andCaroline Van Bers

3. Defining a Sustainable Society / John B. Robinson, GeorgeFrancis, Sally Lerner and Russell Legge

4. Design Criteria for a Sustainable Canadian Society / D. ScottSlocombe, Sally Lerner and Caroline Van Bers

5. Life in 2030: The Sustainability Scenario / David Biggs andJohn B. Robinson

6. Achieving a Sustainable Society / D. Scott Slocombe, SallyLerner, George Francis and John B. Robinson

7. A Retrospective / George Francis



Appendixes

A. Project Participants and Project Papers

B. The Socioeconomic Resource Framework / David Biggs


About the author








John B. Robinson is the director of the SustainableDevelopment Research Institute and a professor in the Department ofGeography at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor ofManaging Natural Resources in British Columbia: Markets,Regulations, and Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1995) andAchieving Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1996).

Summary

A ground-breaking, practical, and, above all, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada.

Product details

Authors david Biggs, George Francis, Russel Legge, Sally Lerner, John B. Robinson, John Bridger Robinson, D. Scott Slocomve, Sustainable Development Research Institu
Assisted by John Bridger Robinson (Editor)
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 08.10.1996
 
EAN 9780774805629
ISBN 978-0-7748-0562-9
No. of pages 184
Weight 420 g
Illustrations 23 b&w illustrations
Series Sustainability and the Environment
Sustainability and the Environment
Sustainability and the Environ
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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