The Coming Good Boom: Creating Prosperity for All and Saving the Environment Through Compact Living - Couverture souple

Booth, Douglas E

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1453805931 ISBN 13 : 9781453805930

Editeur : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

Economists like to say that there is no such thing as a "free lunch" whenever we move our social arrangements in a new direction. According to this kind of thinking, a price will inevitably be paid for addressing big, society-wide problems such as global warming. This book takes a contrary view--resolving the problem of global warming and moving to a more spatially compact form of human settlement will generate a durable and widespread prosperity and improvements in the quality of life. In short, fixing global warming will be a "free lunch". We will all end up being better off independently of any gains to the climate or the natural environment. The turn to clean energy will set off an unprecedented economic boom driven by innovation in energy conservation, production, and distribution and by a move toward high density urban living and the private and public construction that will go with it. Unlike the economic expansions of recent decades, growth induced by a shift to clean energy and compact living will truly lift all economic boats. Turning to compact green living and freeing ourselves from the environmental tyranny of fossil fuels will set off an investment boom of a new kind--a good boom that will help cure some of our most intractable social and environmental ills. This combination of ideas is the unique and original contribution of this book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Douglas E. Booth lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife, Carol Brill. After teaching for 26 years at Marquette University, he retired in 2002 to spend more time working with the land trust movement and writing. While at Marquette he taught macroeconomics, environmental and natural resource economics, and a variety of other courses, and he coordinated an interdisciplinary undergraduate major and minor in urban and environmental affairs. He is the author of Land Trusts and Biodiversity, Hooked on Growth: Economic Addictions and the Environment, Searching for Paradise: Economic Development and Environmental Change in the Mountain West, The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline, Valuing Nature: The Decline and Preservation of Old-Growth Forests, and Regional Long Waves, Uneven Growth, and the Cooperative Alternative as well as numerous academic articles. He is also a founding board member of the Driftless Area Land Conservancy, a land trust located in southwestern Wisconsin. In his spare time, he loves to backpack, hike, and botanize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1453805931
• ISBN 13: 9781453805930
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible