TY - BOOK ID - 30918406 TI - Treasures of the earth : need, greed, and a sustainable future PY - 2009 SN - 1282352369 9786612352362 0300155670 0300141610 9780300155679 9780300141610 9781282352360 PB - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Sustainable development. KW - Environmental policy. KW - Natural resources KW - Raw materials KW - Conservation of natural resources. KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Conservation of resources KW - Natural resources conservation KW - Resources conservation, Natural KW - National resources KW - Resources, Natural KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Consumer demand KW - Consumer spending KW - Consumerism KW - Spending, Consumer KW - Conservation KW - Economic aspects KW - Government policy KW - Environmental aspects KW - Natural resources conservation areas KW - Primary commodities KW - Resource-based communities KW - Resource curse KW - Environmental auditing KW - Economic development KW - Demand (Economic theory) KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Environmental policy KW - 174 KW - 313 KW - 338.013 KW - 339.320 KW - 355 KW - AA / International- internationaal KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Verband tussen de ethiek en de economie. Ethiek en bedrijf KW - Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën) KW - Belang, verdeling en beleid van de natuurlijke rijkdommen. Grondstoffen KW - Consumptie: algemeenheden. Wet van de vraag in verband met de consumptie. Consumptiebehoefte. Behoeftetheorie KW - Milieu UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30918406 AB - Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali's pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific detail and humanistic nuance. It argues that simply disavowing consumption of materials is not likely to help in planning for a resource-scarce future, given global inequality, development imperatives, and our goals for a democratic global society. Rather than suppress the creativity and desire to discover that is often embedded in the exploration and production of material goods-which he calls "the treasure impulse"-Ali proposes a new environmental paradigm, one that accepts our need to consume "treasure" for cultural and developmental reasons, but warns of our concomitant need to conserve. In evaluating the impact of treasure consumption on resource-rich countries, he argues that there is a way to consume responsibly and alleviate global poverty. ER -