Long-Term Sustainability

Major themes:

• Convergence of demographic, technological, and ecological trends
• futures modeling and global forecasting
• socioeconomic and political variables shaping patterns of resource use and environmental degradation
• disease, health, and world politics

Publications:

Harrison Symposium II - A Decade Since Rio, What Legacy for the Earth Summit?
	Dennis Pirages and Ken Cousins From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security (MIT Press, 2005).
	Dennis Clark Pirages and Theresa Manley DeGeest, Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003).
	Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca, eds., Confronting Consumption (The MIT Press, 2002). Winner of the 2003 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for Best Book on International Environmental Affairs, International Studies Association
	Miranda Schreurs and Elizabeth Economy (eds.). The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
	Dennis Pirages (ed.). Building Sustainable Societies: A Blueprint for a Post-Industrial World (M.E. Sharpe, 1996).

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