The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed? In this book, the Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy, an expert advisory board to the Dutch Minister of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, shows possible ways in which society can move towards a sustainable future.
The book goes in search of a new social order, an order in which sustainability is guaranteed. This search holds four main elements:

• signs of hope: which positive initiatives and developments exist which will lead to a sustainable future?
• transformations: which transformations are needed to reach a sustainable future?
  
• philosophical and methodological reflections: can one predict the future?
  
• institutions: what are the necessary changes in the basic institutions of society to reach a sustainable future?