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    Costing the Earth?: Perspectives on Sustainable Development
    Costing the Earth?: Perspectives on Sustainable Development
    Costing the Earth?: Perspectives on Sustainable Development
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    Costing the Earth?: Perspectives on Sustainable Development

    By Bernd Meyer

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    Our economies must react. "Sustainable behavior must pay off" - this is one of the central tenets of The Sustainability Project. Costing the Earth: Restructuring the Economy for Sustainable Development outlines the economic conditions for achieving the goal of sustainable development, in Europe and around the world. It also explains the incentives for sustainable economic management using economic tools.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHaus Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2009
    ISBN9781906598525
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      This is a quite a difficult book to get into, and its really just part of a much larger series of books that were originally published in Germany.Whilst the text is quite dense and it isn't the sort of coffee table or bedtime book that you'd enjoy reading end-to-end, it does contain some very interesting and useful information. As it is a translation of a German work ('Wie Muss die Wirtschaft Umgebaut Werden?') obviously many of the examples have a bias towards the German experience. This is useful though - all too often environmental books in English only touch on the European perspective, so its good to get a view from one of the major EU powers.This book was written before the Fukishima nuclear incident and Germany's subsequent move to expand its already admirable renewable power generation industry. As 'sustainable development' in industries is one of the core precepts of this book, it will be interesting to see how Germany develops over the next 10-20 years and how close it follows the recommendations and ideas presented here.

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