Treading softly paths to ecological order /

That economies must grow is a fundamental belief among economists, politicians, and journalists. But it is rampant material growth that has brought us to this precipice. Princen argues that it is time to build an economy that is grounded in the way natural systems work; that operates as if we have j...

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Main Author: Princen, Thomas, 1951-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Mit Press, 2013.
Physical Description: xi, 210 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: First MIT Press paperback edition.
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505 0 |a Within our means -- The disordered order -- From house to home: a parable -- To the heart of the beast -- Only when ... -- A home economy -- Principles -- The elm stand -- Beyond the consumer economy -- Tools for an ecological order -- It isn't easy -- Work, workers, and working: toward an economy that works -- Speaking of the environment: two worlds, two languages -- To sustainabilize: the adaptive strategy of world views -- The new normal. 
520 |a That economies must grow is a fundamental belief among economists, politicians, and journalists. But it is rampant material growth that has brought us to this precipice. Princen argues that it is time to build an economy that is grounded in the way natural systems work; that operates as if we have just the right amount of resources rather than endless frontiers. The goal would be to live well by living well within the capacities of those resources. Society's material foundations would be grounded in the biophysical, its practices based on satisfying work, self-reliance, and restraint rather than the purchasing of goods. Princen doesn't offer a quick fix-there's no list of easy ways to save the planet to hang on the refrigerator. He gives us instead a positive, realistic sense of the possible, with an abundance of examples, concepts, and tools for imagining, then realizing, how to live within our biophysical means. 
545 |a Thomas Princen is a Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Princen is the author of The Logic of Sufficiency (2005) and Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order (2010) and coeditor of Confronting Consumption (2002), all published by the MIT Press. 
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