Contents: 1. from growth to sustainability / Brett Dolter and Peter A. Victor -- 2. Growth, development and learning to live in a finite world / Peter Timmerman -- 3. Sustainable development, limits and growth: reflections on the conundrum / James Meadowcroft -- 4. Sustainability metrics and...

This Handbook assembles new contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees, Peter Bartelmus and Tim Jackson, who have helped define our understanding of growth and sustainability, as well as new thinking on...

The paper proceeds with a discussion of the interplay of scale and intensity in determining greenhouse gas emissions. This is followed by the presentation of several macroeconomic scenarios using LowGrow, a simulation model of the Canadian economy. The scenarios considered are ‘business as...