Papers presented at the symposium "Sharing the planet: population, consumption, species", held in Groningen, the Netherlands, from June 12-14, 2002. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Jan Prank -- Introduction / Bob van der Zwaan and Arthur Petersen -- part I. Consumption, population and a sustainable economy. From 'limits to growth' to 'factor four' / Ernst von Weizsäcker -- Increasing resource productivity by a factor ten / Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek -- Sustainable national income, a prerequisite for sustainability / Roefie Hueting -- Energy constraints with limited options / Johan van Klinken -- Overshoot : interrelations between population, consumption and ecosystems / Anne Ehrlich -- part II. Biodiversity, globalisation and sustainable governance. Sharing with other species / Johan van Klinken and Jan van Hooff -- Loss of living nature and possibilities for the limitation thereof / Lucas Reijnders -- The precautionary principle : (un)certainties about species loss / Arthur Petersen and Bob van der Zwaan -- Crisis of ecological stability : natural resources and democracy in the age of globalisation / Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla -- Globalisation, environment and ethics : the problematic relationship between modernity and sustainability / Koo van der Wal -- Environmental security revisited : a civilisational perspective / Bas de Gaay Fortman -- Sustainability of the planet and international politics : looking for an effective global governance / Atiq Rahman and Dwijen Mallick -- Postscript. Education for effective stewardship / Jane Goodall -- Appendix. Groningen Manifesto.