Confronting hidden threats to sustainability / The Worldwatch Institute ; Lisa Mastny, editor.

Contributor Mastny, Lisa, editor.

ImprintWashington : Island Press, [2015]

Descriptionxv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:The seeds of modern threats / Michael Renner -- Energy, credit, and the end of growth / Nathan John Hagens -- The trouble with growth / Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson -- Avoiding stranded assets / Ben Caldecott -- Mounting losses of agricultural resources / Gary Gardner -- The oceans: resilience at risk / Katie Auth -- Whose Arctic is it? / Heather Exner-Pirot -- Emerging diseases from animals / Catherine C. Machalaba, Elizabeth H. Loh, Peter Daszak, and William B. Karesh -- Migration as a climate adaptation strategy / Francois Gemenne -- Childhood's end / Tom Prugh.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-158) and index.

Note:Explores the hidden consequences of an unsustainable global system, including food insecurity, increase in diseases with animal origins, and devaluation of assets.

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