The Earth System 1.1.
Systems and the Earth System 1.2
The Earth as a spaceship 1.3
I = PAT The population in the environment 2.1
Population and overpopulation 2.2
Malthus and the Neo-Malthusians 2.3
Optimistic and “cornucopian” views on population growth and scarcity 2.4
Demographic transition Economic growth and the environment 3.1
Economic growth: convergences and divergences of interpretation 3.2
Growth without limits 3.3
The staging growth 3.4
The limits to growth 3.5
The Doughnut economy Technology, innovation and the environment 4.1
The forces that regulate the growth of the socio-economic system 4.2
Technology: Ecocentrism Vs Tecnocentrism 4.3
Energy intensity and energy consumption 4.4
Rebound effect or Jevon paradox 4.5
Dematerialization and physical limits to growth Development and sustainable development 5.1
Relations between the environment and society: suggestions for reading 5.2
Sustainable development 5.3
Rio "Earth Summit" (1992) 5.4
Millennium Goals and Sustainable Development Goals 5.6
Measuring sustainable development and environmental impact Environmental policies 6.1
Environmental policies: generalities 6.2
The environmental policies of companies 6.3
Energy policies 6.4
Waste policies, and the circular economy 6.5
Environmental conflicts Climate Change 7.1
The carbon balance 7.2
The greenhouse effect and global warming 7.3
Climate change 7.4
The consequences of climate change 7.5
Policies for climate change Energy policies 8.1
Energy sources 8.2
Energy policies and environmental policies 8.3
Non-renewable sources: Fossil fuels 8.4
Nuclear energy. 8.5
Renewable sources 8.6
Hydrogen 8.7
Global energy system 8.8
Is the energy transition possible? 8.9
“Just” energy transition 8.10
Global scenarios to 2050
