Crisis of Global Sustainability

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(2013), "Crisis of Global Sustainability", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 24 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2013.08324caa.009

Crisis of Global Sustainability

Crisis of Global Sustainability

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 24, Issue 3.

Edited by Tapio KanninenRoutledgeLondonDecember 2012180pp.ISBN 9780415694179£18.99

This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development, proposing new organizational solutions to deal with the crisis of sustainability.

Crisis of Global Sustainability provides a compact insider description of the evolution and impact of the Club of Rome, a global think tank that produced a groundbreaking 1972 study “The Limits to Growth” which highlighted the dangers of unrestrained economic growth and possible collapse of global economy during the first decades of the twenty-first century. With recent research confirming the validity of these concerns, Kanninen asks whether our overarching concept of thinking on world development today should continue to be “global sustainability,” which implies that we still have enough time to make adjustments in our future policies and action. Or should the main paradigm of our thinking shift to “global survivability,” a concept that stresses the absolute necessity of immediate and drastic change both in institutions and policies?