Beyond the Limits
Subtitle: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: August 1993
Place of publication: Post Mills, Vermont
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780930031626
Subjects: Population and Evironment; Demographics; Exponential mathematics
Genres: Non-fiction; Population and Environment; World Affairs
First sentence: "Twenty years ago we wrote a book called The Limits to Growth.  It described the prospects for growth in the human population and the global economy during the coming century."  (from the Preface)
Description: This is a book about human population growth, carrying capacities, delayed feedbacks, our environmental impacts, and the possibilities of overshoot and collapse.  --  Excerpt:   "Any population-economy-environment system that has feedback delays and slow physical responses, that has thresholds and erosive mechanisms, is literally unmanageable.  No matter how brilliant its technologies, no matter how efficient its economy, no matter how wise its decision makers, it simply can't steer itself away from hazards unless it tests its limits very, very slowly."
Table of contents: title: Overshoot; title: The Driving Force:  Exponential Growth; title: The Limits:  Sources and Sinks; title: The Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World; title: Back from Beyond the Limits:  The Ozone Story; title: Technology, Markets, and Overshoot; title: Transitions to a Sustainable System; title: Overshoot but Not Collapse