The Limits to Growth: A report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind

Meadows, Donella H.; Randers, Jørgen; Behrens, William W.

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“…Our proposed framework builds on and extends approaches based on limits-to-growth (Meadows et al 1972(Meadows et al , 2004, safe minimum standards (Ciriacy-Wantrup 1952;Bishop 1978;Crowards 1998), the precautionary principle (Raffensperger and Tickner 1999) and tolerable windows (WBGU 1995;Petschel-Held et al 1999) (see Supplementary Discussion 2). A key advance is that the planetary boundaries approach focuses on the biophysical processes of the Earth System that determine the self-regulating capacity of the planet.…”

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A safe operating space for humanity

Rockström

Steffen

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The article presents a study that investigates on the importance of identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries to prevent human activities in affecting environmental condition. The author states the industrial revolution and advancement in human civilization has caused the unstability of the environmental state that is less conducive for humans to live and affect their health condition. The author notes that planetary boundaries served a control variables to secure the safety of its citizen as well as protect the environment from shifting to dangerous levels. It also cites the different planetary boundaries, along with its impact on climate change and Earth system degradation

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A safe operating space for humanity

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Nature

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“…The history of mercury serves as an example of this shortcoming. In 1972, mercury was identified as becoming critically scarce (9). However, through changes in economic and regulatory conditions, by 2004, mercury had a static depletion index (reserve base) approaching 200 years (8).…”

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Material Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responses

Alonso

Gregory

Field

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Many authors suggest that market forces are inadequate to successfully manage the problems of resource availability and use. The fundamental question is whether these inadequacies are intrinsic to the market or if they arise from a failure of firms to detect and respond to subtle market signals. This paper explores the latter by describing (1) mechanisms that can limit materials availability, (2) effects of such limits on the firm, (3) preliminary metrics to diagnose these risks, and (4) strategies to reduce a firm's risk exposure. Case analyses of two materials systems are used to suggest that private firm interests, when properly informed, can motivate strategies that drive toward sustainable materials use. These strategies include (1) improving production efficiency, (2) developing technology to use more sustainable substitute materials, and (3) facilitating a more effective materials recycling infrastructure.

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“…Two years later, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) started its ''Freedom from Hunger'' campaign, in which numerous well-known German nutritional scientists were involved (Cremer 1962, Staples 2003. Only a few years later, the report of the Club of Rome presented the extent of the ecological and social catastrophe to come, thereby underlining the relevance of the WHO campaigns (Meadows 1972).…”

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Zwischen Verrheißung und Bedrohung. Antibiotika in Nahrungsmitteln in Westdeutschland 1950–1980

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2012

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Produktion und Verbrauch von Nahrungsmitteln sind traditionell mit weit reichenden Ängsten verknüpft. Bezogen diese sich in vormodernen Gesellschaften vorrangig auf eine ausreichende Versorgung, sind sie in der modernen Industriegesellschaft eher auf die Qualität der Nahrungsmittel gerichtet. In diesem Zusammenhang spielten in der Nachkriegszeit Antibiotika eine zentrale Rolle. Der Aufsatz stellt die Einführung der Antibiotika in die westdeutsche Food has always been connected with anxieties. Whereas in pre-modern times, people mainly struggled with the provision of enough food, in the late modern period the focus shifted to the quality of food. Due to the successes of modern agriculture and trade, Western countries no longer face the problem of food shortages and undernutrition, but are instead confronted with the problem of over-abundance and health-related problems like obesity (Scholliers 2008, Bruegel/Stanziani 2004, Fischler 2002. Even though people in industrialized countries expect to be able to buy as much food as they want, they are anxious about the purity of their foods, as illustrated by the increasing popularity of organic foods and the role of food scandals in the media. Many of the recent anxieties relate to contamination by poisonous substances or pharmaceuticals, and most are closely linked to the alienation of food production and consumption that has resulted from the processes of industrialization and

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The Limits to Growth: A report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind

Cited by 3,312 publications

References 8 publications

A safe operating space for humanity

A safe operating space for humanity

Material Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responses

Zwischen Verrheißung und Bedrohung. Antibiotika in Nahrungsmitteln in Westdeutschland 1950–1980

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