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Lists of figures List of tables List of boxes Preface Acknowledgements Part I: WHAT SHOULD WE SUSTAIN? 1 Environmental impacts: triggering sustainability concerns 2 A framework for concepts and measures of sustainability Part II: ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY: GETTING RICHER? 3 We, the people: are we better off? 4 We, the nation: towards a sustainable economy 5 Modeling economic sustainability: will we be better off? Part III: ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY: HOW MUCH NATURE DO WE NEED? 6 How much nature do we use? 7 Sustainability: reaching the limits? Part IV: CORNUCOPIA FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? 8 What do we want: happiness, wellbeing, the good life? 9 What can we get? 10 Sustainable development: blueprint or fig leaf? Part V: WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IT? 11 What do the indicators tell us? 12 Strategies, policies, politics 13 Bridging the environmental–economic polarization 14 CONCLUSIONS Annex: A brief history of sustainability science and thought