Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 -Sustainable Growth, Welfare and Short-termism -- Chapter 3 - Non-Sustainable Growth, Resource Extraction, and Boom-Bust Cycles -- Chapter 4 - Fossil Fuel Resources, Environment and Climate Change -- Chapter 5 - Limits on the Extraction of Fossil Fuels,-...

‘Greening' economic growth discourses are increasingly replacing the catchword of ‘sustainable development' within national and international policy circles. The core of the argument is that the growth of modern economies may be sustained or even augmented, while policy intervention...

In this article we compare the current debate about global warming with the earlier discourse of Limits to Growth (LtG) of the 1970's. We are especially interested in the similarities of and differences between the two cases and therefore compare the policy challenges and lessons to be drawn....