Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development
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Transforming the Industrial State
Nicholas A. Ashford and Ralph P. Hall
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The authors address this issue and other critical policy questions that arise in the context of sustainable development, including how to best promote innovation, in a deeply inter-disciplinary fashion."—Dan Esty, author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
"A brilliant, comprehensive, and masterful integration of the multidimensional elements of sustainability. The book provides a higher-level transdisciplinary perspective on sustainability and, at the same time, practical approaches for how to implement sustainability on the ground. It is encyclopedic and unrivalled; reading it was an intellectual epiphany. It is one of the most important texts I have read."—Anne Steinemann,
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington; author of Microeconomics for Public Decisions
"This astonishing book encompasses many important ideas related to sustainable development in Europe and the United States. It is a terrific summary of information for those seeking feasible alternatives to the pursuit of infinite growth—students, managers, and regulators alike."—Dennis Meadows, co-author of The Limits to Growth, winner of the 2009 Japan Prize
"This is by far the most ambitious and the most comprehensive study—years in the making—of the whole range of issues associated with the sustauinability challenge. It is an essential addition to the bookshelf of every scholar working in this field."—Robert U. Ayres, author of Crossing the Energy Divide
"Ashford and Hall have produced a breathtaking, transdisciplinary account of the possible future of sustainable development in a global world. What I find most compelling is their understanding of the far-reaching and far-sighted government action needed to produce the sorts of public and private innovation on which a realistic path to the multiple social, political, economic transformations can be based. At a moment when it is hard to see a positive way forward, Ashford and Hall give me hope!"—Stanley N. Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
"This book makes an exceptionally timely and important contribution by emphasizing the people side of sustainability—especially employment and earning capacity."—John C. Dernbach, Director, Environmental Law Center, Widener University Law School
"A comprehensive, compelling text. Underscores the importance of integrated institutional transformation to enhance economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and meaningful employment. Must reading for understanding the perilous but essential path towards sustainability in the 21st century."—David A. Sonnenfeld, contributing editor, The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice
“This outstanding and comprehensive treatment of sustainable development, drawing on a wide range of analyses including economics, technology, and trade, is an invaluable resource for scholarship and teaching as well as an essential guide to policy.”—Jonathan M. Harris, author, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach
Publication Date: October 18, 2011
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