State of the world 2013 : is sustainability still possible? / Erik Assadourian and Tom Prugh, project directors ; Linda Starke, editor.

2013 state of the world

Is sustainability still possible?

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2013]

xxi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

State of the world : a review in review / Alison Singer ; Beyond sustainababble / Robert Engelman -- The sustainability metric. Respecting planetary boundaries and reconnecting to the biosphere / Carl Folke ; Defining a safe and just space for humanity / Kate Raworth ; Getting to one-planet living / Jennie Moore and William E. Rees ; Sustaining freshwater and its dependents / Sandra Postel ; Sustainable fisheries and seas : preventing ecological collapse / Antonia Sohns and Larry Crowder ; Energy as master resource / Eric Zencey ; Renewable energy's natural resource impacts / Shakuntala Makhijani and Alexander Ochs ; Conserving nonrenewable resources / Gary Gardner -- Getting to true sustainability. Re-engineering cultures to create a sustainable civilization / Erik Assadourian ; Building a sustainable and desirable economy-in-Society-in-Nature / Robert Costanza ... et al. ; Transforming the corporation into a driver of sustainability / Pavan Sukhdev ; Corporate reporting and externalities / Jeff Hohensee ; Keep them in the ground : ending the fossil fuel era / Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela Martin ; Beyond fossil fuels : assessing energy alternatives / T.W. Murphy, Jr. ; Energy efficiency in the built environment / Phillip Saieg ; Agriculture : growing food and solutions / Danielle Nierenberg ; Protecting the sanctity of native foods / Melissa K. Nelson ; Valuing indigenous peoples / Rebecca Adamson, Danielle Nierenberg, and Olivia Arnow ; Crafting a new narrative to support sustainability / Dwight E. Collins ... et al. ; Moving toward a global moral consensus on environmental action / Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson ; Pathways to sustainability: building political strategies / Melissa Leach ; Moving from individual change to societal change / Annie Leonard -- Open in case of emergency. Teaching for turbulence / Michael Maniates ; Effective crisis governance / Brian Martin ; Governance in the long emergency / David W. Orr ; Building an enduring environmental movement / Erik Assadourian ; Resistance : Do the ends justify the means? / Bron Taylor ; The promises and perils of geoengineering / Simon Nicholson ; Cuba : lessons from a forced decline / Pat Murphy and Faith Morgan ; Climate change and displacements / Michael Renner ; Cultivating resilience in a dangerous world / Laurie Mazur ; Shaping community responses to catastrophe / Paula Green ; Is it too late? / Kim Stanley Robinson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-431) and index.