State of the World 2013 Is Sustainability Still Possible?.

• Corporate Authors: Worldwatch Institute. (Editor), SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Geology.; Climatic changes.; Sustainable development.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Sustainable Development.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Natural Hazards.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-458-1

Every day, we are presented with a range of sustainable products and activitiesfrom green cleaning supplies to carbon offsetsbut with so much labeled as sustainable, the term has become essentially sustainababble, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging than the conve...

Table of Contents:

• State of the World: A Year in Review
• 1. Beyond Sustainababble
• 2. Respecting Planetary Boundaries and Reconnecting to the Biosphere
• 3. Defining a Safe and Just Space for Humanity
• 4. Getting to One-Planet Living
• 5. Sustaining Freshwater and Its Dependents
• 6. Sustainable Fisheries and Seas: Preventing Ecological Collapse
• 7. Energy as Master Resource
• 8. Renewable Energys Natural Resource Impacts
• 9. Conserving Nonrenewable Resources
• 10. Re-engineering Cultures to Create a Sustainable Civilization
• 11. Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
• 12. Transforming the Corporation into a Driver of Sustainability
• 13. Corporate Reporting and Externalities
• 14. Keep Them in the Ground: Ending the Fossil Fuel Era
• 15. Beyond Fossil Fuels: Assessing Energy Alternatives
• 16. Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
• 17. Agriculture: Growing Foodand Solutions
• 18. Protecting the Sanctity of Native Foods
• 19. Valuing Indigenous Peoples
• 20. Crafting a New Narrative to Support Sustainability
• 21. Moving Toward a Global Moral Consensus on Environmental Action
• 22. Pathways to Sustainability: Building Political Strategies
• 23. Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change
• 24. Teaching for Turbulence
• 25. Effective Crisis Governance
• 26. Governance in the Long Emergency
• 27. Building an Enduring Environmental Movement
• 28. Resistance: Do the Ends Justify the Means?
• 29. The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering
• 30. Cuba: Lessons from a Forced Decline
• 31. Climate Change and Displacements
• 32. Cultivating Resilience in a Dangerous World
• 33. Shaping Community Responses to Catastrophe
• 34. Is It Too Late?.