Keith Skene, Alan Murray

Sustainable Economics

Context, Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st-Century Practitioner

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A handbook with wide potential usage for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as practitioners, presenting current thinking on sustainability. It explores the ecological models which underpin economic sustainability theory and re-examines the consequences of modern ecological thought on business strategies relating to sustainability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781783531547
• ISBN-10: 1783531541
• Artikelnr.: 40906915

Autorenporträt

Keith Skene, Alan Murray

Inhaltsangabe

Preface1. Human economic activity: an environmental impact assessment2. The
three horsemen of the modern apocalypse: climate, pollution and habitat 3.
Water, energy and the green paradox4. Business and biology: can we learn
from nature?5. Current schools of sustainable thinking: origins, strengths
and weaknesses6. The circular economy7. Design to redesign8. Generic
barriers to change9. Transition to a sustainable economy10. Appropriate
indicators of a sustainable transitionAppendix: a brief guide to
thermodynamicsGlossaryAbout the authorsIndex