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Sustainability : key issues / edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet.

'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 mo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Kopnina, Helen (Editor), Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Key issues in environment and sustainability.
Subjects:
Sustainability.
Sustainable development.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I Defining sustainability
  • Introduction: the emergence and development of sustainability / Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
  • 1. Sustainability, the metaphysics of mastery and transcendent nature / Michael Bonnett
  • 2. Reconstructing the sustainability narrative: separating myth from reality / Peter M. Nemetz
  • pt. II Measuring and assessing sustainability
  • 3. Ethics in sustainability indexes / Sarah E. Fredericks
  • 4. Navigating towards sustainability: essential aspects of assessment and indicators / Thomas Block
  • 5. Concepts, methodologies, data and tools to assess water use / Markus Pahlow
  • pt. III Governing, business and managing sustainability
  • 6. Sustainable consumption and its discontents / Cindy Isenhour
  • 7. The future we want: Post Rio+20 sustainable development goals and the role of education for sustainable development / Walter Leal Filho.
  • 8. Sustainability 2.0: new strategies for achieving behaviour change in a more connected world / Emily Lambert
  • 9. CSR, voluntary standards and sustainability / William Young
  • 10. Business and production solutions: closing loops and the circular economy / Fenna Blomsma
  • pt. IV Globalization, growth and environmental change
  • 11. Economic growth and sustainability / Daniel W. O'Neill
  • 12. Population matters / Blake Alcott
  • 13. Urban sustainability / John Blewitt
  • 14. Sustainable rural development and livelihoods / Andreas Neef
  • pt. V Sustainability and ethics
  • 15. Environmental politics, animal rights and ecological justice / Robert Garner
  • 16. Environmental ethics for tomorrow: sustaining the biosphere / Holmes Rolston
  • 17. Is sùstainability' the same as sùstainable development'? / Haydn Washington.

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