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Sustainability: Key Issues [Kõva köide]

Edited by (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Edited by (University of Connecticut, USA)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 410 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 476 g, 10 Tables, black and white; 31 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 51 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2015
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415529859
  • ISBN-13: 9780415529853
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 410 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 476 g, 10 Tables, black and white; 31 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 51 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2015
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415529859
  • ISBN-13: 9780415529853
Teised raamatud teemal:
Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. Each chapter covers one key idea, and has been written by an expert in that field. This book makes key issues approachable, with each chapter containing:













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









This is the ideal book for students and anyone interested in understanding the key issues within sustainability and how they interact.

Arvustused

"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

List of figures
x
List of tables
xii
List of boxes
xiii
List of abbreviations
xiv
Contributors xvi
PART I Defining sustainability
1(70)
Introduction: the emergence and development of sustainability
3(22)
Helen Kopnina
Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
1 Sustainability, the metaphysics of mastery and transcendent nature
25(15)
Michael Bonnett
2 Reconstructing the sustainability narrative: separating myth from reality
40(31)
Peter M. Nemetz
PART II Measuring and assessing sustainability
71(60)
3 Ethics in sustainability indexes
73(15)
Sarah E. Fredericks
4 Navigating towards sustainability: essential aspects of assessment and indicators
88(21)
Tom Waas
Jean Huge
Aviel Verbruggen
Thomas Block
5 Concepts, methodologies, data and tools to assess water use
109(22)
Markus Pahlow
PART III Governing, business and managing sustainability
131(110)
6 Sustainable consumption and its discontents
133(22)
Cindy Isenhour
7 The future we want: Post Rio+20 sustainable development goals and the role of education for sustainable development
155(28)
Kamarulazizi Ibrahim
Kanayathu C. Koshy
Walter Leal Filho
8 Sustainability 2.0: new strategies for achieving behaviour change in a more connected world
183(16)
Anna C. Evely
Mark S. Reed
David Adams
Emily Lambert
9 CSR, voluntary standards and sustainability
199(20)
Thomas B. Long
Anne Tallontire
William Young
10 Business and production solutions: closing loops and the circular economy
219(22)
Geraldine Brennan
Mike Tennant
Fenna Blomsma
PART IV Globalization, growth and environmental change
241(88)
11 Economic growth and sustainability
243(34)
Christian Kerschner
Daniel W. O'Neill
12 Population matters
277(20)
Blake Alcott
13 Urban sustainability
297(14)
John Blewitt
14 Sustainable rural development and livelihoods
311(18)
Andreas Neef
PART V Sustainability and ethics
329(48)
15 Environmental politics, animal rights and ecological justice
331(16)
Robert Garner
16 Environmental ethics for tomorrow: sustaining the biosphere
347(12)
Holmes Rolston
17 Is `sustainability' the same as `sustainable development'?
359(18)
Haydn Washington
Glossary 377(6)
Index 383
Helen Kopnina is currently employed at The Hague University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. She is a coordinator of Sustainable Business program, lecturer in Politics, Business and Environment and researcher of environmental education and environmental social sciences.



Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is an environmental anthropologist and currently teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions, cross-cultural conservation practices, community response to natural hazards and the effects of climate change.