Ecological Debt

Author : Erik Paredis
Publisher : Academia Press
ISBN 13 : 9038213417
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Ecological Debt written by Erik Paredis and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the scientific report of a research project that aimed to clarify the concept of ecological debt, and to study its relevance and applicability in Belgian and international policy.

Author : Amy Larkin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137361026
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Debt written by Amy Larkin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crises For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's 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 becoming increasingly clear that yesterday's carefree attitude about the environment has morphed into a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. Amy Larkin has been at the forefront of the fight for the environment for years, and in Environmental Debt she argues that the costs of global warming, extreme weather, pollution and other forms of "environmental debt" are wreaking havoc on the economy. Synthesizing complex ideas, she pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest cultural touchstones of the environmental debate, revealing how, for instance, despite coal's relative fame as a "cheap" energy source, ordinary Americans pay $350 billion a year for coal's damage in business related expenses, polluted watersheds, and in healthcare costs. And the problem stretches far beyond our borders: deforestation from twenty years ago in Thailand caused catastrophic flooding in 2011, and cost Toyota 3.4 percent of its annual production while causing tens of thousands of workers to lose jobs in three different countries. To combat these trends, Larkin proposes a new framework for 21st century commerce, based on three principles: 1) Pollution can no longer be free; 2) All business decision making and accounting must incorporate the long view; and 3) Government must play a vital role in catalyzing clean technology and growth while preventing environmental destruction. As companies and nations struggle to strategize in the face of global financial debt, many businesses have begun to recognize the causal relationship between a degraded environment and a degraded bottom line. Profiling the multinational corporations that are transforming their operations with downright radical initiatives, Larkin presents smart policy choices that would actually unleash these business solutions to many global financial and environmental problems. Provocative and hard-hitting, Environmental Debt sweeps aside the false choices of today's environmental debate, and shows how to revitalize the economy through nature's bounty.

Author : Andrew Simms
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Debt written by Andrew Simms and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine opening a bank letter at breakfast to find that instead of your normal overdraft, you had an ecological debt that threatened the planet. If the whole world wanted to live like people in the United Kingdom we would need the resources of three planets like Earth. If the United States was our model the number would be five. Simms shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts. The book explores a great paradox of our age: how the global wealth gap was built on ecological debts, which the world's poorest are now having to pay for. Highlighting how and why this has happened, he also shows what can be done differently in the future - and what steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.

Author : Andrew Simms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783710591
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Debt written by Andrew Simms and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do you owe the environment?

Author : José María Borrero Navia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789589234051
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ecological Debt written by José María Borrero Navia and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological debt : archeology and meaning of the concept - Erosion of a paradigm - Financial debt and ecological debt - Free market environment - To measure or not to measure the ecological debt? - Findings and challenges.

Author : Andrew Simms
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Debt written by Andrew Simms and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of this highly acclaimed guide-- 'Creative and compelling.' Guardian 'Essential reading.' Head of the IPCC 'A new phrase has entered the language.' Anita Roddick This is the second edition of Andrew Simm's highly regarded guide to climate change and some possible solutions.

Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135957304
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse written by Laura Westra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines. This volume discusses the need for ecological integrity as a major guiding principle in a variety of policy areas, to counter the present ecological and economic crises with their multiple effects on human rights. The book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Global Ecological Integrity Group and reassesses the basic concept of ecological integrity in order to show how a future beyond catastrophe and disaster is in fact possible, but only if civil society and ultimately legal regimes acknowledge the necessity to consider ecointegrity as a primary factor in decision-making. This is key to the support of basic rights to clean air and water, for halting climate change, and also the basic rights of women and indigenous people. As the authors clearly show, all these rights ultimately depend upon accepting policies that acknowledge the pivotal role of ecological integrity.

Author : Hali Healy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1849713987
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Economics from the Ground Up written by Hali Healy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides learning materials which are grounded in the experience of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), with case studies chosen by CSOs and developed collaboratively with leading ecological economists.

Author : Sivaram Vemuri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880146
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connected Accountabilities: Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship written by Sivaram Vemuri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These chapters are all based on earlier versions presented and discussed at the Ecological Justice and Global citizenship conference in Mansfield College, Oxford in 2008. They provide an indication of the breadth of research and debate on environmental issues and provide a number of interesting perspectives.

Author : Krista E. Hughes
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085576
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Solidarities written by Krista E. Hughes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, this volume presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and motivate action in order to construct alternative frameworks and establish novel solidarities for the sake of our planetary home. The selections in this volume explore ecologies of interdependence as a frame for religious, theological, and philosophical analysis and practice. Contributors examine questions of justice, climate change, race, class, gender, and coloniality and discuss alternative ways of engaging the world in all its biodiversity. Each essay, poem, reflection, and piece of art contributes to and reflects upon how to live out entangled differences toward positive global change. Constructive and practical, global and local, communal and personal, Ecological Solidarities is an innovative contribution to the discourses on relational and liberative thought and practice in religion, philosophy, and theology. It will be welcomed by scholars of World Christianity and theology as well as seminary students, activists, and laity interested in issues of justice and ecology.