Life in 2030 - Exploring a Sustainable Future for Canada

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, John B. Robinson, John Bridger Robinson, Sustainable Development Research Institu
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.1996
• EAN: 9780774805698
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-0569-8
• No. of pages: 184
• Weight: 300 g
• Illustrations: 23 b&w illustrations
• Series: Royal British Columbia Museum; Sustainability and the Environment; Sustainability and the Environment; Sustainability and the Environ
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Umweltschutz, Nature, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)