1. Science and Sustainability.
- Author
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Thiele, Leslie Paul
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SUSTAINABLE development , *ECONOMIC development & the environment , *CONSERVATION of natural resources , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL engineering , *INDUSTRIAL policy - Abstract
Through environmental accounting, a precautionary orientation and widespread environmental education, governments, businesses and citizens might come to understand how their long-term self-interests, and the interests of progeny, depend upon their acting sustainably. In turn, we face the challenge of investigating how morally and politically viable uses of coercion, the employment of economic incentives and/or disincentives, and the cultivation of moral obligations and/or emotive attachments might allow governments, businesses and citizens to overcome collective action problems, thus redirecting behavior into more sustainable paths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2002