How New Zealand Became a Green Leader?

John Peet

Chapter 12 in Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders, 2014, pp 93-97 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: From New Zealand's position now in the year 2050, in a state of strong sustainability, it is clear that its citizens were quite unready in 2009 to embrace the concept of sustainable living and the changes required to achieve it. Modern historians have marveled at the fact that the 2008 general election scarcely mentioned the subject, despite the substantial evidence of imminent, unprecedented change. The drivers of major change that had been identified soon appeared in 2008, some with much more severity than had been envisaged…

Keywords: Envisioning; Sustainable Future; Desirable Future; Positive Future; Future History; Scenarios; World Views (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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