Présentation de l'éditeur : "For the past two decades, scientists have urged us to abandon fossil fuels as rapidly as possible and pursue a range of other reforms to avert the many crises climate change will bring. The reforms have not occurred. In Shocks, states, and sustainabi…
Introduction -- Radical environmental reforms : a theory -- The Great Plains : soil conservation during the "dirty thirties"--England : green belts after World War II -- Cuba : agro-ecological farming after the Soviet collapse -- Coastal Maine : a catch and sometimes release lob…
For the past two decades, scientists have urged us to abandon fossil fuels as rapidly as possible and pursue a range of other reforms to avert the many crises climate change will bring. The reforms have not occurred. In Shocks, states, and sustainability, Thomas K. Rudel outline…
Shocks, States, and Sustainability outlines a theory for when we can expect long-term changes toward sustainability. Thomas K. Rudel offers historical comparisons of radical reforms in environmental practices to show that societies become more sustainable in the aftermath of ear…