O ambiente é uma área que nos convoca a todos colocando-nos perante dilemas difíceis, com forças antagónicas a puxarem-nos para lados opostos. Este livro deambula pela história, problemas, desafios e possíveis caminhos para uma sociedade mais sustentável. Faz-se um périplo pelos tópicos mais marcantes deste complexo tema que afecta, por vezes mais do que queremos admitir, a nossa vida, a dos nossos filhos e a do planeta em que vivemos.

The project of science has been to provide answers to questions about the world and how it works. Often, this lofty role has been characterised by a narrow and dogmatic scientific training, an unwillingness to communicate to differing stakeholder needs, a refusal to accept and to manage uncertainty, complexity and value commitments, and the reduction of knowledge assessment to colleague peer review on narrowly technical issues. Times have changed. As the world faces increasingly disparate ...

The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or could have played, in a range of major and avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigat...