Embracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume uses the technical tools from ecological economics to recast the Sustainable Development Goal

Examines the factors which limit human economic and population growth and outlines the steps necessary for achieving a balance between population and production

Mounting evidence reveals that the existing scale of human enterprise has already surpassed global ecological limits to growth. This ecological reality clearly

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are