Sustainability [electronic resource] / Leslie Paul Thiele.
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
9780745656090 hard cover
9780745656106 paperback
Publication Details
Cambridge : Polity Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 234 p.)
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Sustainability and Time
The Geography of Sustainability
Ecological Resilience and Environmental Health
Technological Solutions and Their Problems
The Political and Legal Challenge
Sustaining Economies
Culture and Change.
The Geography of Sustainability
Ecological Resilience and Environmental Health
Technological Solutions and Their Problems
The Political and Legal Challenge
Sustaining Economies
Culture and Change.