This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection's...

1. The entropy law and the economic problem (1970) / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- 2. Energy and economic myths (1972) / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- 3. The steady state and the ecological salvation (1977) : a thermodynamic analysis / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- 4. Inequality, limits and growth...

1. Introduction -- 2. The industrial waste market -- 3. Creating the market for household waste and extended producer responsibility -- 4. First-best economy : comparisons between a disposal fee policy and EPR-based policies -- 5. The second-best policy for recycling household waste -- 6. The...

1. Zero-sum world : how to think about ecologically unequal exchange -- 2. Fetishism, dissociation, and the cultural analysis of capitalism -- 3. Historical political ecology : progress as environmental load displacement -- 4. Toward a truly global environmental history -- 5. The unequal...

1. The Lund meeting and the production of this book -- 2. Developing a vision for the planet -- 3. The starting point : planet 2010 -- 4. The vision of 2050 -- 5. Pathways between 2010 and 2050 -- 6. Back to the reality of 2010 and the challenges ahead.