The effort of negotiate a global Convention on climate change is one of mankind's great endeavours--and a challenge to economists and development planners. The inherent linkages between climate and the habitability of the earth are increasingly well recognized, and a Convention could help to...

Industrial society is still on a course of conflict with the environment. Natural resources are being over-exploited and the natural ecosystems are over-loaded by non-digestable pollutants. Unchanged, industrial society gives no real chance to nature and provides no future for a sustainable...