A Prosperous Way Down

Principles and Policies

Howard T. Odum,Elisabeth C. Odum

• Verlag: University Press of Colorado
• Jahr: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781607320814
• Thema: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Thema: Política

A Prosperous Way Down (2001), the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy.

A Prosperous Way Down considers ways in which a future with less fossil fuel could be peaceful and prosperous. Although history records the collapse of countless civilizations, some societies and ecosystems have managed to descend in orderly stages, reducing demands and selecting and saving what is most important.

The authors make recommendations for a more equitable and cooperative world society, with specific suggestions based on their evaluations of trends in global population, wealth distribution, energy sources, conservation, urban development, capitalism and international trade, information technology, and education.

Available for the first time in paperback, this thoughtful, provocative book forces us to confront assumptions about our world 's future and provides both a steadying hand and a call to action with its pragmatic analysis of a global transition.

INDEX

Abortion, 42, 275

population regulation, 191

Abstinence, 275

Accidents

automobile size, 176

high energy, 191

Achievements and growth stage, 89

Action summary, 279

Activities after school, 266

Adams, B., 36

Adaptation

to descent, 85

mechanisms, 270

to pulses, 235

Addiction and transformity, 181

Advertising

decrease, 203

transportation corridors, 213

Africa, AIDS epidemic in, 15

Aggregating complexity, 7

Agrarian

civilization, 20

culture, 87

Agriculture, 21

decreasing intensity, 239

lands reduced, 241

loans in descent, 240

production record, 22

subsidy benefits, 176

varieties conserved, 241

yield increases, 239

zone protected, 241

Aquatic ecosystem, 66

AIDS epidemic, 15

Alexander, J. F., 34, 289

Alkaline desert soils, 223

Allee, W. C., 269, 294

Alternative

beliefs, 279

solid waste disposal, 217

sex practices, 275

trends, 56

Aluminum, 217

American

automobile culture, 175

Dream, 187

hegemony, 32

Anarchy, 32

Animism, 31

Anthropology and pluralism, 276

Antibiotic resistance, 193

Apocalypse, 205

Apprentice

programs, 260, 262

wage rates, 188

Appropriate distribution of wealth, 183

Aquaculture, 22, 228

Archaeological studies, 205

Architecture, energy saving, 272

Arcing, J. E., 293

Areal empower density, 290

Areas of disorganization, 210

Arms sales and terrorists, 181

Armstrong, N. E., 292

Artificial wetlands, 228

Aswan Dam, Egypt, 226

Atchafalaya River, Louisiana, 227

Athletics and education, 265

Athens, ancient Greece, 205

Atlanta, 211

Atlantic rain forest of Brazil, 242

Atmospheric pulses, 79

Austerity, 202

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