Our Common Journey:: A Transition Toward Sustainability

摘要: World human population is expected to reach upwards of 9 billion by 2050 and then level off over the next half-century. How can transition a stabilizing also be sustainability? science technology help ensure that needs are met while planet's environment nurtured restored? Our Common Journey examines these momentous questions draw strategic connections between scientific research, technological development, societies' efforts achieve environmentally sustainable improvements in well being. The book argues societies should approach development not as destination but an ongoing, adaptive learning process. Speaking two generations, it proposes strategy for using technical knowledge better inform future action areas fertility reduction, urban systems, agricultural production, energy materials use, ecosystem restoration biodiversity conservation, suggests building new research agenda sustainability science. documents large-scale historical currents social environmental change reviews methods "what if" analysis possible pathways their implications sustainability. identifies greatest threats sustainability--in such settlements, agriculture, industry, energy--and explores most promising opportunities circumventing or mitigating threats. It goes on discuss what indicators change, from children's birth-weights atmosphere chemistry, will useful monitoring