Sustainability: Key Issues: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
Editat de Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimeten Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2015
- a definition of the key concept
- a history of how and why the issue has emerged
- a discussion of the advantages, drawbacks, main contributions and controversies associated with this issue
- case studies to demonstrate how it works in reality
- critical discussion of mainstream models of sustainability and the reason why they don't work
- introduction of beyond-the-convention alternatives, including circular economy and cradle to cradle approaches
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415529860
ISBN-10: 0415529867
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 51 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 10 black & white halftones, 31 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415529867
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 51 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 10 black & white halftones, 31 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
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Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
Part 1. Defining Sustainability Introduction. The Emergence and Development Of Sustainability 1. Sustainability, the Metaphysics Of Mastery, and Transcendent Nature 2. Reconstructing the Sustainability Narrative: Separating Myth From Reality Part 2. Measuring and Assessing Sustainability 3. Ethics in Sustainability Indexes 4. Navigating Towards Sustainability: Essential Aspects of Assessment and Indicators 5.Concepts, Methodologies, Data and Tools To Assess Water Use Part 3. Governing, Business, and Managing Sustainability 6. Sustainable Consumption and Its Discontents 7. The Future We Want: Post Rio+20 Sustainable Development Goals and the Role Of Education For Sustainable Development 8. Sustainability 2.0: New Strategies for Achieving Behavior Change in a More Connected World 9. CSR, Voluntary Standards & Sustainability 10. Business and Production Solutions: Closing loops and the circular economy Part 4. Globalization, Growth, and Environmental Change 11. Economic Growth and Sustainability 12. Population Matters 13. Urban Sustainability 14. Sustainable Rural Development and Livelihoods Part 5. Sustainability and Ethics 15. Environmental Politics, Animal Rights and Ecological Justice 16. Environmental Ethics For Tomorrow: Sustaining the Biosphere 17. Is ‘Sustainability’ the Same As ‘Sustainable Development’?
Recenzii
"This book contains many of today's top scholars involved in the emergent study of what "sustainability" can and should mean across diverse interdisciplinary and international contexts. This is an important text that will help to academically orient students and scholars interested in the subject. Undoubtedly, it will facilitate and sustain many debates on the crucial array of social and ecological matters it takes up for discussion and possible transformative action." –Richard Kahn, Antioch University , USA
"This high quality, well-written work contributes to the diversity of perspectives on sustainability. It reviews the core issues from political, economic, commercial and ethical angles and features a variety of experts, including several big names in the field. Case studies make the text accessible and inspiring." –F. Meijers, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands and R. Lengelle, Athabasca University, Canada
"This volume brings together a range of authors with a wide variety of expertise to explore some of the most pressing issues and challenges in the sustainability arena. The breadth of its coverage means the volume offers a valuable grounding for anyone wanting to learn more about sustainability."–Lindsay C. Stringer, University of Leeds, UK
"This important and timely volume casts a wide net on the potential analytical purchase of the concept of 'sustainability'. It provides a foundation for interdisciplinary studies of sustainability and showcases the force of this growing concept and its' multiple forms of practice."–Peter C. Little, Rhode Island College, USA
"This high quality, well-written work contributes to the diversity of perspectives on sustainability. It reviews the core issues from political, economic, commercial and ethical angles and features a variety of experts, including several big names in the field. Case studies make the text accessible and inspiring." –F. Meijers, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands and R. Lengelle, Athabasca University, Canada
"This volume brings together a range of authors with a wide variety of expertise to explore some of the most pressing issues and challenges in the sustainability arena. The breadth of its coverage means the volume offers a valuable grounding for anyone wanting to learn more about sustainability."–Lindsay C. Stringer, University of Leeds, UK
"This important and timely volume casts a wide net on the potential analytical purchase of the concept of 'sustainability'. It provides a foundation for interdisciplinary studies of sustainability and showcases the force of this growing concept and its' multiple forms of practice."–Peter C. Little, Rhode Island College, USA
Descriere
This comprehensive textbook brings together in one volume the broad spectrum of topics covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. The book provides postgraduate and final year undergraduate students in sustainable development and in environmental studies with a wealth of international and interdisciplinary expertise to challenge their thinking in new ways on the key issues in sustainability.