Sustainability : key issues

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Sustainability : key issues

edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

(Key issues in environment and sustainability)

Routledge, 2015

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

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'?

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