TY - GEN N2 - Plan B is a way of sustaining economic progress worldwide, an alternative to continuing environmental deterioration and eventual economic decline by stabilizing the population and climate before these issues spiral out of control. AB - Plan B is a way of sustaining economic progress worldwide, an alternative to continuing environmental deterioration and eventual economic decline by stabilizing the population and climate before these issues spiral out of control. T1 - Plan B :rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble / AU - Brown, Lester R. AU - Brown, Lester Russell, CN - HC79.E5 N1 - Donated to the Library. A publication of WW Norton & Company and the Earth Policy Institute. Table of Contents : 1. A planet under stress I : A civilization in trouble 2. Emerging water shortages 3. Eroding soils and shrinking cropland 4. Rising temperatures and rising seas 5. Our socially divided world 6. Plan A : business as usual II : The response : Plan B 7. Raising water productivity 8. Raising land productivity 9. Cutting carbon emissions in half 10. Responding to the social challenge III : The only option 11. Plan B : rising to the challenge Notes Index. ID - 13339 KW - Water-supply. KW - Environmental economics. KW - Population. KW - Carbon dioxide KW - Gaz carbonique KW - Économie de l'environnement. KW - Environmental degradation. KW - Economic development. KW - ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION KW - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT KW - ENVIRONMENT : SUSTAINABLE USE, CONSERVATION SN - 039305859X TI - Plan B :rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble / ER -