From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security Exploring New Limits to Growth

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Academic Foundation, 2008 - 280 pages

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Contents

From Limits to Growth to Ecological Security
1
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be World Population Trends
21
Reflections on an Aging Global Population
39
Global Water Prospects
59
Food Policy Underfed or Overfed?
83
Energy Security and Cooperation over the Next Quarter Century
105
RenewableEnergy Technologies
127
Future Socioeconomic and Political Challenges of Global Climate Change
145
Global Climate Change Policy Challenges Policy Responses
165
Forest Degradation the Timber Trade and Tropical Region Plantations
187
Biodiversity and Ecological Security
203
TwentyNine Days Responding to a Finite World
216
References
227
Contributors
257
Index
261
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