Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Challenge and response -- The destination -- The direction -- Ethics and leadership -- Market tools for managing the transition -- Stakeholders and dispute resolution -- Bringing it together -- REFERENCES -- 2 National self-interest in the pursuit of sustainable development -- Environmental degradation, poverty, and economic growth -- Poverty as a cause of deforestation -- The negative correlation between pollution and income -- Global abundance of nonrenewable resources -- Depletion and growth: a national, not global, issue -- Degradation of agricultural soils and depletion of freshwater -- Institutional failures -- Market failures -- Policy failures -- Underpricing of forests -- Underpricing of water -- Underpricing of energy -- Underpricing agrochemicals -- National benefits and costs of sustainable development -- The competitiveness argument -- The financing gap -- Global benefits of domestic action -- Summary -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- 3 Uneconomic growth: Empty-world versus full-world economics -- Abstract -- Uneconomic growth in theory -- Uneconomic growth in fact -- Uneconomic growth in two paradigms -- Neoclassical paradigm -- Ecological economics paradigm -- From permitting growth, to mandating growth, to limiting growth -- Globalization as stimulus to uneconomic growth -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- 4 Population and consumption: From more to enough -- Population vs. consumption -- Population -- Definitions -- Trends -- Theories -- Policies -- Consumption -- Definitions -- Trends -- Theories -- Policies -- Separate the more damaging from the more benign -- Substitute the more benign for the more damaging -- Shrink energy and material throughputs -- Satiate consumption needs -- Sublimate consumption desires -- From more to enough -- REFERENCES.

5 Spirituality and sustainability -- Idolatry and the American dream -- Panentheism -- Ecojustice -- From economism to earthism -- The church as a center for empowerment of local communities -- Spiritual and moral transformation -- REFERENCES -- 6 Leadership skills for sustainable development -- Preamble on personal restraint -- What is environmental leadership? -- Leadership goals and sustainable enterprises -- Personal leadership skills and strategic restraint -- The concept of moving beyond blame -- Leadership and its complexities in regard to sustainable development -- Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- 7 The role of science: guidance and service -- Introduction -- Subjective experts -- Imaginable surprises -- Subjective assessment of climatic sensitivity -- Is there a "citizen-scientist"? -- The three questions -- Meta-institution building: a science assessment "court"? -- A "FED for science"? -- Advocacy, yes -- selective inattention to facts, no -- Rolling reassessment -- Environmental literacy -- REFERENCES -- 8 Economic tools, international trade, and the role of business -- Economic tools -- Making regulation work better -- Ending subsidies -- Fishing -- Farming -- Water -- Defining property rights -- Taxes, charges and tradable credit -- The green-tax deficit -- International trade -- The rules of trade -- The impact on competition -- The role of companies -- Regulation and voluntarism -- The pressures outside -- The pressures within -- REFERENCES -- 9 Stakeholders and sustainable development -- The challenge of stakeholder involvement -- U.S. environmental law and stakeholder involvement -- The NEPA model -- The Clean Water Act model -- Shared decision-making -- Formosa Plastics: a case study in shared decision-making -- Background to the agreements -- The Blackburn-Formosa agreement -- Wilson-Formosa zero discharge agreement.

The Sustainable development agreement -- Formosa case study summary -- Procedure and shared decision-making -- Substance and shared decision-making -- Co-operation and domination -- The Rio Principles and global co-operation -- The co-operative society -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 10 From idea to action: The role of policy -- Agenda setting -- Policy formulation -- A new policy paradigm? -- Revolution at the grassroots -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTE -- Index.