false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182679899m/1310960.jpg 1310960 1 What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure its industry, shape its consumption?<br /> <br /> Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted to ecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they have developed norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges -- at once global, technological, and commercial -- require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles.<br /> <br /> In this highly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is not about denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion and overconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and good governance; it is about goods that are good only to a point.<br /> <br /> With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible and yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues that seeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational -- personally, organizationally, and ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the long term, an economy -- indeed a society -- cannot operate as if there's never enough and never too much. 1300248 1 10 2005 The Logic of Sufficiency total:4|5:0|4:1|3:0|2:0|1:0| 4 14 20 3 4 0 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 11:09:49 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 12:24:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 18:18:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 05:29:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Apr 05 13:40:27 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 13:42:04 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 06:00:08 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 06:00:08 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 10 06:37:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 06:37:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 22 14:40:13 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 14:40:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 03 17:51:58 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 17:51:58 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Apr 26 12:39:06 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 12:39:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Dec 10 19:56:19 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 19:56:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Oct 24 20:05:11 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 20:05:11 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Sep 27 07:24:21 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 07:24:21 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jun 18 13:39:05 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 08:48:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Apr 25 13:04:46 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 13:04:58 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Mar 20 07:18:24 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 07:18:24 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Feb 11 20:18:27 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 20:18:34 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Feb 06 13:21:36 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 13:21:41 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jan 24 20:33:09 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 20:33:17 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Dec 09 15:08:21 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 26 21:02:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 04 20:37:14 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 20:37:14 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Jul 19 11:08:25 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 11:08:25 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1310960