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| Main Title | Plan B 3.0 : mobilizing to save civilization / | |||||||||||
| Author | Brown, Lester R. ; Brown, Lester Russell | |||||||||||
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| Publisher | W.W. Norton, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2008 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 154706888 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 9780393065893; 0393065898; 9780393330878; 0393330877 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Environmental policy--Economic aspects. ; Natural resources--Management. ; Economic development--Environmental aspects. ; Umweltpolitik.--(DE-588)4078523-3 ; Ressourcenpolitik.--(DE-588)4177874-1 ; Umweltverträglichkeit.--(DE-588)4061655-1 ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung.--(DE-588)4066438-7 ; Environmental policy--Economic aspects.--sears ; Natural resources--Management.--sears ; Economic development--Environmental aspects.--sears | |||||||||||
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| Edition | {New ed.}. | |||||||||||
| Collation | xiv, 398 pages ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Revised edition of: Plan B 2.0. c2006. "Earth Policy Institute." Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-371) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Entering a new world -- Deteriorating oil and food security -- Rising temperatures and rising seas -- Emerging water shortages -- Natural systems under stress -- Early signs of decline -- Eradicating poverty, stabilizing population -- Restoring the Earth -- Feeding eight billion well -- Designing cities for people -- Raising energy efficiency -- Turning to renewable energy -- The great mobilization. Provides alternative solutions to such global problems as population control, emerging water shortages, eroding soil, and global warming, outlining a detailed survival strategy for the civilization of the future. |