Sustainability and the Art of Long-Term Thinking (Hardcover)

Preface

Part 1 Sustainability and time

1. Ways to approach sustainability policy

2. Sustainability: theory and policy

Part 2 The conceptual framework of stocks

3. The perspective of stocks

4. Material stocks

5. Immaterial stocks and institutions

6. The persistence of institutions

7. Judgement

8. Time and the practical dimension of the concept of stock

Part 3 Applying the stocks framework

9. Shaping institutional change in the course of contamination management in Saxony-Anhalt

10. Ways of achieving sustainable land use in Germany: A stocks-based analysis

Part 4 The art of long term thinking

11. The stocks framework as a heuristic for sustainability policies

12. Applying the heuristic: Key elements of a sustainable inland shipping policy

13. Stocks: a schooling in long term thinking

14. Literature