Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future : Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders
Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski (eds)
The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or can be, with global perspectives written by some of the world's leading thinkers, including: Wendell Berry, Van Jones, Frances Moore Lappe, Peggy Liu, Hunter Lovins, Gus Speth, Bill McKibben, and many more.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Why We Need Visions of a Sustainable and Desirable World (51 KB)
Contents:
- Introduction:
- Why We Need Visions of a Sustainable and Desirable World (Robert Costanza and Ida Kubiszewski)
- Envisioning a Sustainable World (Donella Meadows)
- Why Everyone Should Be a Futurist? (William S Becker)
- Think Like an Ecosystem, See Solutions (Frances Moore Lappé)
- Future Histories: Descriptions of a Sustainable and Desirable Future and How We Got There:
- What Would a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature Look Like? (Robert Costanza, Gar Alperovitz, Herman Daly, Joshua Farley, Carol Franco, Tim Jackson, Ida Kubiszewski, Juliet Schor, and Peter Victor)
- Vision Statement for the Planet in 2050 (Ajay Bhave, Silvia Ceausu, Anand Deshmukh, Jessica Jewell, Wayne Pan, and Jana Timm)
- Scenes from the Great Transition (Paul D Raskin)
- Environmental History Exam 2052: The Last Half-Century (Les W Kuzyk)
- A Virtual Visit to a Sustainable 2050 (Robert Costanza)
- Reflections on a Life Lived Well and Wisely (Joshua Farley)
- The Great Turnaround: How Natural Capital Entered the Economy? (Ronald Colman)
- How New Zealand Became a Green Leader? (John Peet)
- The New New York: 2050 (Barbara Elizabeth Stewart)
- Pieces of the Puzzle: Elements of the World We Want:
- Sustainability and Happiness: A Development Philosophy for Bhutan and the World (Jigmi Y Thinley)
- Flourishing as a Goal of International Policy (Martin Seligman)
- What Else? (Wendell Berry)
- Let Us Envision Gender Equality: Nothing Else is Working (Jane Roberts)
- Another World: Finally Her(e) (Kavita N Ramdas and Jamie Querubin)
- Policy Reform to 350 (Bill McKibben)
- The Great Transition to 350 (Dylan Walsh and Tess Croner)
- On Baselines That Need Shifting (Daniel Pauly)
- The Future of Roads: No Driving, No Emissions, Nature Reconnected (Richard T T Forman and Daniel Sperling)
- The New Security (Gary Hart)
- Green Accounting: Balancing Environment and Economy (Peter Bartelmus)
- A Vision of America the Possible (James Gustave Speth)
- Getting There:
- The Way Forward: Survival 2100 (William E Rees)
- An Integrating Story for a Sustainable Future (Mary Evelyn Tucker and Brian Thomas Swimme)
- It Is Time to Fight the Status Quo (Bill McKibben)
- Can We Avoid the Perfect Storm? (David W Orr)
- Sustainable Shrinkage: Envisioning a Smaller, Stronger Economy (Ernest Callenbach)
- How to Apply Resilience Thinking: In Australia and Beyond? (Brian Walker)
- Endangered Elements: Conserving the Building Blocks of Life (Penny D Sackett)
- Well-Being, Sufficiency, and Work-Time Reduction (Anders Hayden)
- Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs) at Rio+20: A Practical Step Toward Global Sustainability (Mohan Munasinghe)
- Happiness and Psychological Well-Being: Building Human Capital to Benefit Individuals and Society (George W Burns)
- Time for a Bold Vision: A New, Green Economy (Van Jones)
- A World That Works for All (L Hunter Lovins)
- Fighting Poverty by Healing the Environment (Christine Loh)
- Re-Engineering the Planet: Three Steps to a Sustainable Free-Market Economy (Eckart Wintzen)
- Raising Gross National Happiness through Agroforestry (Pahuna Sharma-Laden and Croix Thompson)
- Building Bridges between Science and Policy to Achieve Sustainability (Katherine Richardson and Ole Wæver)
- Bringing Mozart to the Masses: Venezuela's Music Revolution (Maria Páez Victor)
- Creating the Schools of the Future: Education for a Sustainable Society (Peter M Senge)
- A Values-Based Set of Solutions for the Next Generation (Tim Kasser)
- Teaching a University Course in Sustainable Happiness (Catherine O'Brien)
- The Time Has Come to Catalyze a Sustainable Consumerism Movement (Peggy Liu)
Readership: Undergraduates, professionals, researchers, and anyone interested in what a sustainable and desirable future might look like.
