Author(s) | |
---|---|
Publication Year | |
Publisher |
On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition
Five Axioms of Sustainability
From: Peak Everything
$1.40
My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) of sustainability to help clarify the characteristics of a durable society.
Contributors
Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is the author of eleven previous books including The Party's Over, Powerdown, Peak Everything, and The End of Growth. He is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. Heinberg has given hundreds of lectures on our energy future to audiences around the world. He has been published in Nature and other journals, and has been featured in many television and theatrical documentaries.