Why We Need Visions of a Sustainable and Desirable World

Robert Costanza and Ida Kubiszewski

Chapter 1 in Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders, 2014, pp 3-8 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Creating a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable future is the most critical task facing humanity today. This vision must be of a world that we all want, a world that provides permanent prosperity within the Earth's biophysical constraints in a fair and equitable way to all of humanity, to other species, and to future generations…

Keywords: Envisioning; Sustainable Future; Desirable Future; Positive Future; Future History; Scenarios; World Views (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789814546898_0001 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789814546898_0001 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814546898_0001

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().