Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Financial and Environmental Sustainability

For a long time, the earlier sustainability literature focused almost exclusively on environmental sustainability, which included resource exhaustion, toxic pollution, ecosystem destruction, and global climate disruption. The sources of environmental problems were acknowledged to stem from industria...

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Main Authors: Ashford, Nicholas A., Hall, Ralph P., Ashford, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: EBR Media 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85016
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description For a long time, the earlier sustainability literature focused almost exclusively on environmental sustainability, which included resource exhaustion, toxic pollution, ecosystem destruction, and global climate disruption. The sources of environmental problems were acknowledged to stem from industrialization and the ever-increasing consumption of materials and energy. Some attention surfaced on environmental justice, reflecting the disparate effects of environmental deterioration on poor people and poor nations. Recently, concerns with environmental sustainability have become dominated by global climate change, almost to the exclusion of other environmental concerns.
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spelling mit-1721.1/850162022-09-30T17:10:31Z Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Financial and Environmental Sustainability Ashford, Nicholas A. Hall, Ralph P. Ashford, Robert Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering Ashford, Nicholas A. Ashford, Nicholas A. For a long time, the earlier sustainability literature focused almost exclusively on environmental sustainability, which included resource exhaustion, toxic pollution, ecosystem destruction, and global climate disruption. The sources of environmental problems were acknowledged to stem from industrialization and the ever-increasing consumption of materials and energy. Some attention surfaced on environmental justice, reflecting the disparate effects of environmental deterioration on poor people and poor nations. Recently, concerns with environmental sustainability have become dominated by global climate change, almost to the exclusion of other environmental concerns. 2014-02-19T20:10:09Z 2014-02-19T20:10:09Z 2012-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1757-5680 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85016 Ashford, Nicholas A. et al. "Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Financial and Environmental Sustainability." The European Financial Review (October-November 2012): 63-68. © 2012 The European Financial Review en_US http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=5884 The European Financial Review Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf EBR Media Nicholas Ashford
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title_short Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Financial and Environmental Sustainability
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