Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth

Part I. Civilization in crisis: On the edge of an abyss

1. Global ecological situation

2. Critically overpopulated planet

3. The ecological equivalents of modern man

Part II. Civilization teetering over the abyss of crisis (conclusion)

4. The social dimension of the crisis

5. The role of centralized and market economies

6. The crisis of values as the main cause of the ecological challenge

Part III. The world community: Politicians and scientists in search of a solution

7. The mission of the Club of Rome

8. Programs for change: Stockholm—Rio—Johannesburg

9. Toward a systemic understanding of the biosphere

10. The constancy of the planetary environment in light of the biotic regulation mechanism

Part IV. Sustainable development: Between complacency and reality

11. The basis of sustainability in nature and in civilization

12. The national colors of sustainable development

13. Co-evolution of nature and society: Fact or fiction?

Part V. On the scale of a scientific approach

14. Sustainable development in relation to the carrying capacity of the biosphere

15. The starting conditions of sustainable development and the preservation of ecosystems by country and continent

16. Navigation directions: Indicators of sustainable development

Part VI. “Is there enough community, responsibility, discipline and love?” (Meadows et al., 1992)

17. The barricades of old thinking in the way of sustainable development

18. What the market economy can and cannot accomplish

19. Sustainable development and the “real human condition”

20. The social premises of sustainable development and the globalization problem

Avainsanat: Environment, Environmental Management, Climate Change, Environment, general, Environmental Economics