A free book on Sustainability Issues

The Cambridge University Press published a compilation of papers submitted to an international symposium on sustainability that was held in 2007.

Schellnhuber, H. J., Molina, M., Stern, N., Huber, V., & Kadner, S. (Eds.). (2010). Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Full-text: http://www.nobel-cause.de/book/

Its table of contents can be found below.
Slide presentations for each chapter can be found at
Sessions I and II: http://www.nobel-cause.de/presentations
Sessions III and IV: http://www.nobel-cause.de/presentations/session-iii-iv/index_html

Contents

PART I
The Great Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
1 Transformations of the twenty-first century: transitions to
greater sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
Murray Gell-Mann
2 Commentary: Integrated sustainability and the underlying threat
of urbanization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
Geoffrey B. West
3 Commentary: Earth system analysis and taking a crude look at the
whole  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
Wolfgang Lucht
4 Making progress within and beyond borders  . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
Johan Rockström, Katrin Vohland, Wolfgang Lucht, Hermann
Lotze-Campen, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, and Tariq Banuri
5 Towards a sustainable future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
James P. Leape and Sarah Humphrey

PART II
Climate stabilization and sustainable development  . . . . . . . . .  65
6 Scientific understanding of climate change and consequences for a
global deal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  67
Stefan Rahmstorf, Jennifer Morgan, Anders Levermann, and Karsten
Sach
7 Towards a global deal on climate change  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  81
Nicholas Stern and Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels
8 Commentary: The German contribution to a global deal . . . . . . . 101
Sigmar Gabriel
9 A ‘just’ climate agreement: the framework for an effective global
deal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Sunita Narain
10 Commentary: Carbon justice and forestation – the African
perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Wangari Maathai
11 Carbon offsets, the CDM, and sustainable development  . . . . . . 129
Diana M. Liverman
12 Insights into the climate challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Rajendra Pachauri
13 Commentary: Climate change – learning from the stratospheric
ozone challenge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Mario Molina
14 Climate change, poverty eradication, and sustainable development  165
Nitin Desai
15 Commentary: Development and sustainability: conflicts and
congruence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Kirit S. Parikh

PART III
Institutional and economic incentives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
16 Robust options for decarbonization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Thomas Bruckner, Ottmar Edenhofer, Hermann Held, Markus Haller,
Michael Lüken, Nico Bauer, and Nebojsa Nakicenovic
17 Price and quantity regulation for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ottmar Edenhofer, Robert Pietzcker, Matthias Kalkuhl, and Elmar
Kriegler
18 Commentary: Controlling climate change economically . . . . . . . 227
James Mirrlees
19 What is the top priority on climate change? . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Paul Klemperer
20 Research and technology for sustainability – a global cause . . . 243
Annette Schavan
21 Commentary: Energy research and technology for a transition
toward a more sustainable future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Nebojsa Nakicenovic

PART IV
Technological innovation and energy security . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
22 A world powered predominantly by solar and wind energy  . . . . . 263
Walter Kohn
23 Low-cost ‘plastic’ solar cells: a dream becoming a reality  . . . 271
Alan Heeger
24 Smart grids, smart loads, and energy storage  . . . . . . . . . . 281
Joachim Luther
25 The SuperSmart Grid – paving the way for a completely renewable
power system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Antonella Battaglini, Johan Lilliestam, and Gerhard Knies
26 Getting the carbon out of transportation fuels  . . . . . . . . . 307
Felix S. Creutzig and Daniel M. Kammen
27 Opportunities for technological transformations: from climate
change to climate management?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Maria Magdalena Titirici, Dieter Murach, and Markus Antonietti

PART V
A global contract between science and society  . . . . . . . . . . . 331
28 Promoting science, technology and innovation for sustainability
in Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Mohamed H. A. Hassan
29 Information flow: the basis for sustainable participation . . . . 343
John Sulston
30 Commentary: Educating and motivating global society . . . . . . . 355
Susanne Kadner
31 Commentary: Democracy and participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Achim Steiner

PART VI
The Potsdam Memorandum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
32 Potsdam Memorandum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
33 Commentary: The Potsdam Memorandum: a remarkable outcome of a
most important conference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Klaus Töpfer