Product Description: Informational text, expert analysis, and seminal public documents enlighten students about the garbage situation we are facing, which not only includes mountains of food scraps and discarded possessions, but hazardous, toxic, and radioactive waste as well...read more

Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century yet it is poorly understood. It is commonly thought of as conservation of the natural systems that human society depends on. Capitalism is the problem because it feeds our self-interest so governments must regulate our behavior to prevent us consuming nature. This book shows that there is a more enjoyable path to sustainable development. What is missing in most discussions of sustainable development is the task of improving human lives. It is commonly presumed that this means increasing national income. Yet research has shown that in the rich countries the relationship between income and happiness is weak, that consumption does not make us happy, and that occasional bouts of happiness do not add up to an enjoyable life. The rich are only marginally happier than the middle-classes because we all have been trained by modern capitalism to seek happiness through excessive consumption on a happiness treadmill. Only constant fixes of more and more 'stuff' can make us happy and then only temporarily; we always need more. And the perpetual pursuit of - and constant failure to find - happiness through working and spending is consuming the planet. So we are told we must be forced to consume better or less to sustain development.Because human systems are complex and unpredictable, governments cannot do this. They cannot solve much simpler social problems and prevent recessions and depressions, eradicate hunger or poverty, guarantee employment or affordable health care, or ensure peace and security. Using theories of complex adaptive systems developed from the natural sciences, this book explains why sustainable development - increasing human enjoyment while conserving the environment - cannot be created by governments from the top-down. Sustainability is not just another policy problem; it is a matter of changing the social paradigm from the bottom up.  For this everyone needs to learn the most valuable lesson of capitalism: to seek their personal self-interest, what is good for them. But this is not the self-interest that you indulge in the mall with shopping therapy. Positive psychology has shown that a truly enjoyable life comes from the pursuit of well-being that is a complete engagement with life by developing as far as possible our personal talents and abilities. Our psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are laid waste by 'getting and spending' in a competitive society. And an enjoyable life needs less consumption. Two questions remain. First, how might it be possible to teach people how to find true enjoyment in the pursuit of well-being? This book shows how this might emerge with a social marketing campaign that uses progressive commitments within small social groups to enforce positive deviances from normal patterns of consumption. We can begin to learn how to manage our lives for enjoyment rather than accumulation by gaining financial management skills, avoiding most debts, and knowing the difference between needs - that we must have - and the unnecessary wants that marketers try to make us indulge.If these lessons were well learned and people consumed much less as they enjoyed their lives in the pursuit of well-being, what would become of modern capitalism that thrives on constant economic growth driven by consumerism? Would it collapse into a permanent depression of falling demand and deflation? Because society is a complex system, no prediction is reliable and chaotic changes may always intrude. However, this book argues that if business and government react intelligently to the public's changing demands, capitalism may be sustained but in a modified form. Capitalism could continue and sustain development if most of us pursued our personal well-being.

Provides directions and exercises for basic skill building in keyboarding, for both typewriters and computers.

Product Description: Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that growing environmental degradation and wealth inequality are linked to how nature is exploited to create economic wealth. Ending the under-pricing of natural capital and insufficient human capital accumulation is essential to overcoming structural imbalance in modern economies...read more

Product Description: Economic Growth and the Environment explores the debate on how to reconcile economic growth with protection of the natural environment, and the closely related discussion on whether an increasing scarcity of natural resources will eventually force economic growth to cease...read more

Product Description: The Economics of Green Growth investigates the possibility of creating an integrated indicator covering three pillars of sustainable development: economy, society and the environment. The excessive pursuit of economic efficiency has resulted in severe environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss, and societal human issues such as inequality and disparity...read more

Product Description: The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit...read more

Product Description: We find ourselves at a crossroads between environmental disaster and a new industrial revolution: a shift from the ruthless exploitation of nature toward cooperation with it. Decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption is an ambitious goal, but also an achievable one...read more

Product Description: Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them. Because they come mainly from the environmental and science disciplines, most environmental professionals have limited training in the fundamentals of economics...read more

Product Description: Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking. Its underlying message is attractive and optimistic: if the market can become the tool for tackling climate change and other major ecological crises, the fight against these crises can also be the royal road to solving the problems of the market...read more

Product Description: There is no doubt that “economy” is a keyword in contemporary life, yet what constitutes economy is increasingly contested terrain. Interested in building “other worlds,” J. K. Gibson-Graham have argued that the economy is not only diverse but also open to experimentations that foreground the well-being of humans and nonhumans alike...read more

This guide gives coverage of the two islands of Malta and Gozo. Malta is covered in ten routes and Gozo in two. There are introductory essays on the history of Malta, practical information, itineraries, maps and plans.

Product Description: Written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex concepts, laws, and policy, Production, Growth, and the Environment: An Economic Approach explores how economic growth usually makes people better off, but also asks at what environmental cost? These costs are not often realized until after the fact, when their remediation is more expensive, and sometimes not reversible...read more

Product Description: For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that our most important challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now, in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal devastation from Hurricane Sandy, rampant wildfires across the West, and groundwater contamination from reckless drilling, it's increasingly clear that yesterday's carefree attitude about the environment has morphed into a fiscal crisis of epic proportions...read more