The post carbon reader
Subtitle: managing the 21st century's sustainability crises
By: Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, editors
Publisher: Watershed Media; Post Carbon Institute; Distributed by the University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Healdsburg, Calif; Santa Rosa, Calif; Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780970950062
Subjects: Environmental economics; Climatic changes; Government policy; Energy development; Sustainable development; Environmental aspects; Hubbert peak theory; Economic development; Environmental protection; Environmental justice; Renewable energy sources; Environmental degradation; Human ecology; Energy policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Asher Miller; title: Preface / Daniel Lerch; title: Beyond the limits to growth / Richard Heinberg; title: What is sustainability? / Richard Heinberg; title: Thinking "resilience" / William E. Rees; title: A new world / Bill McKibben; title: The international response to climate change / Richard Douthwaite; title: The ecological deficit : creating a new political framework / David Orr; title: Water : adapting to a new normal / Sandra Postel; title: Peak nature? / Stephanie Mills; title: Getting fossil fuels off the plate / Michael Bomford; title: Takling the oldest environmental problem : agriculture and its impact on soil / Wes Jackson; title: Growing community food systems / Erika Allen; title: Population : the multiplier of everything else / William N. Ryerson; title: Dangerously addictive : why we are biologically ill-suited to the riches of modern America / Peter C. Whybrow; title: Remapping relationships : humans in nature / Gloria Flora; title: The human nature of unsustainability / William E. Rees; title: Making sense of peak oil and energy uncertainty / Daniel Lerch; title: Hydrocarbons in North America / J. David Hughes; title: Nine challenges of alternative energy / David Fridley; title: Peak oil and the great recession / Tom Whipple; title: Ecological economics / Joshua Farley; title: Money and energy / Richard Douthwaite; title: The competitiveness of local living economies / Michael H. Shuman; title: The death of sprawl : designing urban resilience for the twenty-first-century resource and climate crises / Warren Karlenzig; title: Smart decline in post-carbon cities : the Buffalo Commons meets Buffalo, New York / Deborah E. Popper and Frank J. Popper; title: Toward zero-carbon buildings / Hillary Brown; title: Local government in a time of peak oil and climate change / John Kaufmann; title: Transportation in the post-carbon world / Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl; title: Climate change, peak oil, and the end of waste / Bill Sheehan and Helen Spiegelman; title: Human health and well-being in an era of energy scarcity and climate change / Cindy L. Parker and Brian S. Schwartz; title: Smart by nature : schooling for sustainability / Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow; title: Community colleges : a vital resource for education in the post-carbon era / Nancy Lee Wood; title: Personal preparation / Chris Martenson; title: What can communities do? / Rob Hopkins; title: What now? : the path forward begins with one step / Asher Miller.