Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (e-book)

Original publisher: Stockholm Environment Institute
Content Partner: Great Transition Initiative
 Authors: Paul Raskin, Tariq Banuri, Gilberto Gallopín, Pablo Gutman, Al Hammond, Robert W. Kates, Rob Swart
Hardcover: ISBN: 0971241813

  1. Where Are We?
    1. Historical Transitions
    2. The Planetary Phase
    3. Branch Point
  2. Where Are We Headed?
    1. Many Futures
    2. Global Scenarios
    3. Driving Forces
    4. Market-driven Development and its Perils
    5. Barbarization and the Abyss
    6. On Utopianism and Pragmatism
  3. Where Do We Want To Go?
    1. Goals for a Sustainable World
    2. Bending the Curve
    3. Limits of the Reform Path
    4. From Sustainability to Desirability
  4. How Do We Get There?
    1. Strategies
    2. Change Agents
    3. Dimensions of Transition
    4. Values and Knowledge
    5. Demography and Social Change
    6. Economy and Governance
    7. Technology and the Environment
    8. Civilizing Globalization
  5. History of the Future
    1. Prologue
    2. Market Euphoria, Interruption and Revival
    3. The Crisis
    4. Global Reform
    5. Great Transition
    6. Epilogue
  6. The Shape of Transition

Citation
Raskin, Paul, Tariq Banuri, Gilberto Gallopín, Pablo Gutman, Al Hammond, Robert W. Kates and Rob Swart (Lead Authors); Great Transition Initiative (Content Partner); Cutler J. Cleveland (Topic Editor). 2008. "Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (e-book)." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth April 6, 2007; Last revised November 26, 2008; Retrieved July 3, 2009]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Great_Transition:_The_Promise_and_Lure_of_the_Times_Ahead_(e-book)>
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