Achieving Global Sustainability - Policy Recommendations

Informationen zum Autor Takamitsu Sawa is adviser to the chief director of the Kyoto Sustainability Initiative and project professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Japan. Susumu Iai is chief director of the Kyoto Sustainability Initiative and professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University.Seiji Ikkatai is professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University. Klappentext "The problem of global sustainability is indisputably the most serious issue facing humanity today. One of the biggest factors in the deterioration of global sustainability is climate change! which has been exacerbated by the entire range of human activities and is inextricably related to modern civilization. Solving this difficult problem requires a drastic redesign of society from all aspects--technological! economic and social. This book looks at how to achieve a more secure level of global sustainability and gathers together a variety of recommendations."--Publisher's description.

Product details

• Authors: Takamitsu (EDT)/ Iai Sawa
• Assisted by: Susumu Iai (Editor), Seiji Ikkatai (Editor), Takamitsu Sawa (Editor)
• Publisher: Bernan associates
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2011
• EAN: 9789280811841
• ISBN: 978-92-808-1184-1
• No. of pages: 343
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Sustainability Science; United Nations; Sustainability Science; Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education