Sustainability

Key Issues
Herausgeber: Kopnina, Helen; Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780415529860
• ISBN-10: 0415529867
• Artikelnr.: 42397882

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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'?