Sustainability and Future Energy Contours

Searching for Sustainability Kenya ’ S Energy past and Future

Introduction One generation ago world leaders convened in Nairobi to discuss pathways to sustainability in the world’s energy supply [1, 2]. At the time, the world faced record high energy prices and decision makers were gradually becoming aware of the social and environmental costs of their nations’ appetites for energy. In 1981 in Nairobi, the representatives of the world’s nations committed ...

Sustainability, Morality and Future Rights

Sensing and Energy Sustainability

Contours of a Resilient Global Future

Humanity confronts a daunting double challenge in the 21st century: meeting widely-held aspirations for equitable human development while preserving the bio-physical integrity of Earth systems. Extant scientific attempts to quantify futures that address these sustainability challenges are often not comprehensive across environmental and social drivers of global change, or rely on quantification...

Valuing the Future: Economic Theory and Sustainability

4 1 This is the preface and …rst chapter of my book Valuing the Future: Economic Theory and Sustainability, published by Columbia University Press. The entire manuscript can be read online on the Columbia press web site, Sustainability is a metaphor for some of the most perplexing and con-sequential issues facing humanity.Almost without exception, these issues are rooted in our economic behavio...