缅北强奸 School of Environment Speakers Series
鈥淢anaging without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster"
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Peter Victor has worked on environmental issues for many years as an academic, public servant and private consultant.
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Peter is a Professor in Environmental Studies at York University where he teaches an undergraduate course in environmental management and graduate and undergraduate courses in ecological and environmental economics. From 1996 to 2001 he was Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies.
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This ecological economist challenges the priority that rich countries continue to give to economic growth as an over-arching objective of economic policy. The challenge is based on a critical analysis of the literature on environmental and resource limits to growth, on the disconnect between higher incomes and happiness, and on the failure of economic growth to meet other key economic, social and environmental policy objectives.
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