The Logic of SufficiencyMIT Press, 2005 - 401 pages Builds sufficiency as a principle for sustainability with concepts and case studies and shows how seeking enough when more is possible is intuitive, rational and ethical. What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organise itself, structure its industry, shape its consumption? Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted to ecological constraint. They have changed behaviour; they have built institutions. And they have developed norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges - at once global, technological, and commercial - require new behaviours, new institutions, and new principles. |
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Management and SelfManagement in an Ecologically | 23 |
A Brief and Curious History | 49 |
Whose Ratios? From Technic to Rhetoric | 87 |
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