Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead

Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (e-book)

Published: November 26, 2008, 4:45 pm

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Sustainable Development (main)

Original publisher: Stockholm Environment Institute
Content Partner: Great Transition Initiative
Authors: Paul Raskin, Tariq Banuri, Gilberto Gallopín, Pablo Gutman, Al Hammond, Robert W. Kates, Rob Swart
Hardcover: ISBN: 0971241813

• Acknowledgements (Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (e-book))
• Preface (Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (e-book))

1. Where Are We?
   1. Historical Transitions
   2. The Planetary Phase
   3. Branch Point
2. Where Are We Headed?
   1. Many Futures
   2. Global Scenarios
   3. Driving Forces
   4. Market-driven Development and its Perils
   5. Barbarization and the Abyss
   6. On Utopianism and Pragmatism
3. Where Do We Want To Go?
   1. Goals for a Sustainable World
   2. Bending the Curve
   3. Limits of the Reform Path
   4. From Sustainability to Desirability
4. How Do We Get There?
   1. Strategies
   2. Change Agents
   3. Dimensions of Transition
   4. Values and Knowledge
   5. Demography and Social Change
   6. Economy and Governance
   7. Technology and the Environment
   8. Civilizing Globalization
5. History of the Future
   1. Prologue
   2. Market Euphoria, Interruption and Revival
   3. The Crisis
   4. Global Reform
   5. Great Transition
   6. Epilogue
6. The Shape of Transition

• Narratives (Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (e-book))

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