"The Limits to Growth" (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, "The Limits to Growth" was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now...

The transition from a fossil-based energy economy to one based on renewable energy is driven by the double challenge of climate change and resource depletion. Building a renewable energy infrastructure requires an upfront energy investment that subtracts from the net energy available to society....

In der neuen Reihe "Bibliothek der Nachhaltigkeit" erscheint der erstmals 2010 posthum veröffentlichte Titel der US-amerikanischen Umweltwissenschaftlerin Donella H. Meadows (1941-2001), die schon massgeblich an dem Werk "Grenzen des Wachstums" (1972) mitarbeitete. "Behandelt wird ein Thema,...