Sustainability [electronic resource] / Leslie Paul Thiele.
Thiele, Leslie Paul.
2013
HC79.E5 T45 2013eb
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Title Sustainability [electronic resource] / Leslie Paul Thiele.
Author Thiele, Leslie Paul.
ISBN 9780745676579 electronic book
9780745656090 hard cover
9780745656106 paperback
Imprint Cambridge : Polity Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 234 p.)
Call Number HC79.E5 T45 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.927
Summary The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, widespread initiatives within civil society and business, historic policies for municipal, regional, and national governments, and crucial protocols and agreements by international organizations. Increasingly, sustainability provides a common language and goal for diverse peoples and nations. Yet the meaning of sustainability remains unsettled, and the term frequently serves as a PR strategy, a green veneer for business as usual, rather than a driver of fundamental change. This book provides a broad-ranging introduction to the concept and practice of sustainability today. It addresses the history, scope, and contested meanings of sustainability as an ethical ideal, an ascendant ideology, and a common sense approach to living in an ever more crowded world of increasingly scarce resources. Key topics covered include environmental health and ecological resilience, the promise and unintended consequences of technology, political and legal challenges, economic limits and opportunities, and cultural change. Unlike most other approaches to this crucial topic, the author argues that sustainability requires innovation and adaptation as much as the conservation of resources. His book is a resource for environmental studies and related areas.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Available in Other Form Sustainability.
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Technological Solutions and Their Problems
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Sustaining Economies
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