At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration and climate change, sustainability is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? This text tackles these questions directly.
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At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration and climate change, sustainability is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? This text tackles these questions directly. It covers: historical development of the concept of sustainability; contemporary debates about how to achieve it; and obstacles and the prospects for overcoming them. This new fully revised edition covers the latest on the climate change front, particularly the advances in scientific understanding and political awareness of climate change. Other updates include more recent economic analyses, particularly the Stern Report, and the global shift away from faith in markets over the past five years.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Earthscan Ltd
Edition details
2nd Revised edition
City:
London
Edition:
REV
Pages:
224
More info:
height 234 mm
width 156 mm
weight 362 gr
thickness 18 mm
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC22) 338.927
Library of Congress Subject: Sustainable development
Record updated at:
22 May, 2013
time:
00:21
Summary
The Principles of Sustainability
Introduction * Part I: Past * Progress and its Discontents * From Muir to Meadows * Sustainability Emerging * From Rio to Kyoto and Later Disappointments * Part Two: Present * What Does i? Sustainable Developmenti? Mean? * Taking Sustainability into Economics * i? Putting a Price on the Planeti? * The Ethics of Sustainability * Part Three: Future * The End of Sustainability? * Index
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