TY  - CHAP
AU  - K.V. Ragnarsdóttir
AU  - H.U. Sverdrup
AU  - D. Koca
ED  - Chaouki Ghenai
Y1  - 2012-02-29
PY  - 2012
T1  - Assessing Long Term Sustainability of Global Supply of Natural Resources and Materials
N2  - The technological advancement of our civilization has created a consumer society expanding faster than the planet’s resources allow, with our resource and energy needs rising exponentially in the past century. Securing the future of the human race will require an improved understanding of the environment as well as of technological solutions, mindsets and behaviors in line with modes of development that the ecosphere of our planet can support. Some experts see the only solution in a global deflation of the currently unsustainable exploitation of resources. However, sustainable development offers an approach that would be practical to fuse with the managerial strategies and assessment tools for policy and decision makers at the regional planning level. Environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers and economists will have to work together in order to ensure that planning and development can meet our society’s present needs without compromising the security of future generations.
BT  - Sustainable Development
SP  - Ch. 5
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/28118
DO  - 10.5772/28118
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-18
ER  -