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Tim Jackson

Material Concerns

Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life

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The pressures of industrialization impose increasingly unacceptable burdens on the environment. Resultant soil degradation, ozone depletion, toxic pollution and gradual global warming ultimately impede our economic development and the progress of civilization.Both old sayings and new trends of environmental management show that prevention is always preferable to any cure. By redesigning products, streamlining industrial processes, and readjusting patterns of consumption, it is possible to promote and sustain economic development within the limits of environmental protection.Material Concerns offers the first non-technical introduction to prev… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-415-13249-7
  • EAN: 9780415132497
  • Produktnummer: 1407699
  • Verlag: Taylor and Francis
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
  • Seitenangabe: 366 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 680 g
  • Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
  • Gewicht: 680

Über den Autor


Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey, UK, and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). For seven years he was Economics Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission, where his work culminated in the first edition of this book. He was awarded the Hillary Laureate for exceptional international leadership in 2016. In addition to his scientific work, Tim is a prize-winning dramatist with numerous radio writing credits for the BBC.

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