Normal view
MARC view
The logic of sufficiency / Thomas Princen.
Publication details: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2005.Description: xvi, 401 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262661904
- 026266190X
- HC79.E5 P6925 2005
Contents:
Subject: Builds sufficiency as a principle for sustainability with concepts and case studies and shows how seeking enough when more is possible is intuitive, rational and ethical.
I. The idea of sufficiency --
Sufficiency in principle --
Ecological rationality : management and self-management in an ecologically constrained world --
Efficiency : a brief and curious history --
Whose ratios? : from technic to rhetoric --
Enough work, enough consumption --
II. Sufficiency on the ground --
The Pacific Lumber Company : the evolution of an idea --
Monhegan Lobstering : self-management meets co-management --
Toronto Island : resisting automobility --
Making ecological sense.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | HC 79 .E5 P6925 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5163896 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. The idea of sufficiency --
Sufficiency in principle --
Ecological rationality : management and self-management in an ecologically constrained world --
Efficiency : a brief and curious history --
Whose ratios? : from technic to rhetoric --
Enough work, enough consumption --
II. Sufficiency on the ground --
The Pacific Lumber Company : the evolution of an idea --
Monhegan Lobstering : self-management meets co-management --
Toronto Island : resisting automobility --
Making ecological sense.
Builds sufficiency as a principle for sustainability with concepts and case studies and shows how seeking enough when more is possible is intuitive, rational and ethical.
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