Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856230562 ISBN 13 : 9781856230568

Editeur : Permanent Publications, 2010

Synopsis

Gaian Economics is the second volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and sets out to explore how we can develop healthy and abundant societies in harmony with our finite planetary resources. Using contributions from a wealth of authors (including Small is Beautifuls E.F. Schumacher, eco-philosopher Joanna Macy and Rob Hopkins of the Transition movement), the editors address ways of reducing our consumption to levels that enable natural systems to self-regenerate and to do so in ways that permit a high quality of life that we live within our means and that we live well. Since the advent of the Scientific Era in the 16th century, humans have stood apart from the rest of nature, seeking to manipulate it for their benefit. Thus, we have learned to refer to the natural world as the environment and to see it, in economic terms, as little more than a bank of resources to be transformed into products for human use and pleasure. This has brought us to the brink of collapse, with natural systems straining under the weight of the population and the levels at which we are consuming. We are, however, on the threshold of a shift into a new way of seeing and understanding the world and our place within it called, by some, the Ecological Age. It will be characterised by a new understanding of our place as a thread in the Web of Life, of our interconnectedness with all other living things. Gaian Economics offers ways forwards towards this Ecological Age, giving suggests for how it may take shape, and how it would work. The Four Keys represent the four dimensions of sustainable design, the Worldview, the Social, the Ecological and the Economic. This series is endorsed by UNESCO and is an official contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Dawson is a sustainability educator and activist. He has spent much of the last 20 years working in Africa and South Asia as a researcher, author, project manager and consultant, primarily in the field of small enterprise and community economic development. He lives at the Findhorn ecovillage, where he teaches sustainability studies up to undergraduate level. He is former president of the Global Ecovillage Network and former Executive Secretary of GEN-Europe. He is author of Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability. Ross Jackson, PhD, has for many years been an innovative leader in both the business and NGO worlds. He is chairman of Gaia Trust, a Danish-based charitable entity he co-founded in 1987 to promote a more sustainable and spiritual world. In his capacity as Gaia Trust Chairman, Ross, is co-founder and major funder of the Global Ecovillage Network, (GEN) and Gaia Education and has supported hundreds of sustainability projects in dozens of countries over the years. Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures around the world. She is founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, co-founder of the International Forum on Globalization, and is a recipient of the prestigious Right Livelihood Award. She is director of the Ladakh Project, renowned for its twenty-five years of groundbreaking work in sustainable development on the Tibetan plateau.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Permanent Publications
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856230562
• ISBN 13: 9781856230568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Dawson Jonathan, Jackson Ross, Norberg-Hodge Helena
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible