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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. 1. Introduction. ch. 1. Why we need visions of a sustainable and desirable world / Robert Costanza and Ida Kubiszewski -- ch. 2. Envisioning a sustainable world / Donella Meadows -- ch. 3. Why everyone should be a futurist? / William S. Becker -- ch. 4. Think like an ecosystem, see solutions / Frances Moore Lappe -- pt. 2. Future histories: Descriptions of a sustainable and desirable future and how we got there. ch. 5. What would a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature look like? / Robert Costanza [and others] -- ch. 6. Vision statement for the planet in 2050 / Ajay Bhave [and others] -- ch. 7. Scenes from the great transition / Paul D. Raskin -- ch. 8. Environmental history exam 2052: The last half-century / Les W. Kuzyk -- ch. 9. A virtual visit to a sustainable 2050 / Robert Costanza -- ch. 10. Reflections on a life lived well and wisely / Joshua Farley -- ch. 11. The great turnaround: How natural capital entered the economy? / Ronald Colman -- ch. 12. How New Zealand became a green leader? / John Peet -- ch. 13. The new New York: 2050 / Barbara Elizabeth Stewart -- pt. 3. Pieces of the puzzle: Elements of the world we want. ch. 14. Sustainability and happiness: A development philosophy for Bhutan and the world / Jigmi Y. Thinley -- ch. 15. Flourishing as a goal of international policy / Martin Seligman -- ch. 16. What else? / Wendell Berry -- ch. 17. Let us envision gender equality: Nothing else is working / Jane Roberts -- ch. 18. Another world: Finally her(e) / Kavita N. Ramdas and Jamie Querubin -- ch. 19. Policy reform to 350 / Bill McKibben -- ch. 20. The great transition to 350 / Dylan Walsh and Tess Croner -- ch. 21. On baselines that need shifting / Daniel Pauly -- ch. 22. The future of roads: No driving, no emissions, nature reconnected / Richard T.T. Forman and Daniel Sperling -- ch. 23. The new security / Gary Hart -- ch. 24. Green accounting: Balancing environment and economy / Peter Bartelmus -- ch. 25. A vision of America the possible / James Gustave Speth -- pt. 4. Getting there. ch. 26. The way forward: Survival 2100 / William E. Rees -- ch. 27. An integrating story for a sustainable future / Mary Evelyn Tucker and Brian Thomas Swimme -- ch. 28. It is time to fight the status quo / Bill McKibben -- ch. 29. Can we avoid the perfect storm? / David W. Orr -- ch. 30. Sustainable shrinkage: Envisioning a smaller, stronger economy / Ernest Callenbach -- ch. 31. How to apply resilience thinking: In Australia and beyond? / Brian Walker -- ch. 32. Endangered elements: Conserving the building blocks of life / Penny D. Sackett -- ch. 33. Well-being, sufficiency, and work-time reduction / Anders Hayden -- ch. 34. Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs) at Rio+20: A practical step toward global sustainability / Mohan Munasinghe -- ch. 35. Happiness and psychological well-being: Building human capital to benefit individuals and society / George W. Burns -- ch. 36. Time for a bold vision: A new, green economy / Van Jones -- ch. 37. A world that works for all / L. Hunter Lovins -- ch. 38. Fighting poverty by healing the environment / Christine Loh -- ch. 39. Re-engineering the planet: Three steps to a sustainable free-market economy / Eckart Wintzen -- ch. 40. Raising gross national happiness through agroforestry / Pahuna Sharma-Laden and Croix Thompson -- ch. 41. Building bridges between science and policy to achieve sustainability / Katherine Richardson and Ole Waver -- ch. 42. Bringing Mozart to the masses: Venezuela's music revolution / Maria Paez Victor -- ch. 43. Creating the schools of the future: Education for a sustainable society / Peter M. Senge -- ch. 44. A values-based set of solutions for the next generation / Tim Kasser -- ch. 45. Teaching a university course in sustainable happiness / Catherine O'Brien -- ch. 46. The time has come to catalyze a sustainable consumerism movement / Peggy Liu. |
| Summary |
The ever-pressing challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision 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, namely Wendell Berry, Van Jones, Frances Moore Lappe, Peggy Liu, Hunter Lovins and Gus Speth. This monograph reviews the role played by TFS in masking, pitch perception, speech perception, and spatial hearing, and concludes that cues derived from TFS play an important role in all of these. Evidence is reviewed suggesting that cochlear hearing loss reduces the ability to use TFS cues. Also, the ability to use TFS declines with increasing age even when the audiogram remains normal. This provides a new dimension to the changes in hearing associated with aging, a topic that is currently of great interest in view of the increasing proportion of older people in the population. The study of the role of TFS in auditory processing has been a hot topic in recent years. While there have been many research papers on this topic in specialized journals, there has been no overall review that pulls together the different research findings and presents and interprets them within a coherent framework. This monograph fills this gap. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sustainable development.
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Sustainable development. |
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Sustainability.
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Sustainability. |
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Environmentalism.
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Environmentalism. |
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Environmental policy.
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Environmental policy. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Costanza, Robert, editor.
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Kubiszewski, Ida, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Creating a sustainable and desirable future. New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014] 9789814546881 (DLC) 2013035772 (OCoLC)857863423 |
| ISBN |
9789814546898 (electronic book) |
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9814546895 (electronic book) |
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9789814546881 |
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9814546887 |
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