This paper is about excessive overuse of resources and about serious environmental impacts, and the need for a global ecological turnaround. Ideas about a social contract for sustainability are being discussed, and examples given of resource decoupling and impact decoupling. Global environmental...

Chapter 1- Setting the context -- Chapter 2- Managing natural resources sustainably: market and non-market comprehension -- Chapter 3- Biodiversity resources: degradation, protection, and sustainable conservation -- Chapter 4- Water resources: provision, distribution, and sustainable production...