Achieving Global Sustainability
Policy Recommendations

The deterioration of global sustainability, caused in large part by climate change, is the most serious issue facing humanity. This book looks at how to achieve a more secure level of global sustainability and offers a range of recommendations to that end. It offers policy recommendations for achieving global sustainability.

The contributors also examine various strategies for achieving a sustainable society, among them a basic strategy for mitigating climate change, a strategy of technology development toward global sustainability, and a post-2012 international policy framework. The book presents methods of adaptation for environmental change, including integrated assessment models of climate change and a risk-assessment approach to seismic hazard mitigation. Policy recommendations for global sustainability are also introduced, including those advocating a low-carbon society by 2050, a "Green New Deal" as a means of integrating policies, climate security, and a new international discipline.