Sustainable futures : linking population, resources and the environment /
Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future. Written by leaders in their field, and based on presentations from the 2013 Fenner Conference on 'Population, Resources and Cli...
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Collingwood, Vic. :
CSIRO Publishing,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. It's the numbers, stupid!
- 2. The environmental implications of population growth
- 3. Whither wildlife in an overpopulated world?
- 4. The outlook for population growth in Australia
- 5. What population growth will do to Australia's society and economy
- 6. Ageing paranoia, its fictional basis and all too real costs
- 7. The propaganda campaign against peaking fossil fuel production
- 8. The coming radical change in mining practice
- 9. Coal : nails in the global coffin
- 10. Save the soil to save the planet
- 11. Food, land and water: lessons from the Murray-Darling basin
- 12. Balancing water use for food and the environment: looking to the north based on lessons from the south
- 13. Human health: bottom-line integrator of impacts of the population, resources and climate change
- 14. Climate change
- beyond dangerous: emergency action and integrated solutions
- 15. Theology confronts global warming and population
- 16. Denial as a key obstacle to solving the environmental crisis
- 17. Why can't we win on population?
- 18. Thinking at species level
- 19. Nor lose the name of Action!
- 20. Reflections on the Fenner conference.
