Sustainability

Name: Sustainability
Brand: Taylor & Francis
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Key Issues

Series: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

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Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for students studying sustainability at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The book covers a broad spectrum of topics including participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism, culture, sustainable communities, and sustainable consumption. Each chapter focuses on a key concept, providing its definition, history, advantages and drawbacks, case studies, and critiques of mainstream sustainability models, while proposing alternative approaches such as circular economy and cradle to cradle.

This accessible text is ideal for those seeking to understand the interconnected issues within sustainability and their practical implications.
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This book is suited for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sustainability, as well as readers interested in understanding the core issues and varied perspectives within sustainability studies.

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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 under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities, and sustainable consumption.

Each chapter covers one key idea and has been written by an expert in that field. This book makes key issues approachable, with each chapter containing:

A definition of the key concept.
A history of how and why the issue has emerged.
A discussion of the advantages, drawbacks, main contributions, and controversies associated with this issue.
Case studies to demonstrate how it works in reality.
Critical discussion of mainstream models of sustainability and the reasons why they don't work.
An introduction to beyond-the-convention alternatives, including circular economy and cradle-to-cradle approaches.

This is the ideal book for students and anyone interested in understanding the key issues within sustainability and how they interact.

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"This book contains many of today's top scholars involved in the emergent study of what 'sustainability' can and should mean across diverse interdisciplinary and international contexts. An important text for students and scholars that will facilitate debates on crucial social and ecological matters." – Richard Kahn, Antioch University, USA

"A high quality, well-written work covering sustainability from political, economic, commercial and ethical perspectives. Featuring renowned experts and accessible case studies, it is both inspiring and informative." – F. Meijers, The Hague University of Applied Sciences and R. Lengelle, Athabasca University

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ISBN: 9780415529853

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 July 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 10 Tables, black and white; 31 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 51 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Helen Kopnina
Edited by Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 476g

Pages: 410

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About the Author

Helen Kopnina is currently employed at The Hague University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. She is a coordinator of Sustainable Business program, lecturer in Politics, Business and Environment and researcher of environmental education and environmental social sciences. Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is an environmental anthropologist and currently teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions, cross-cultural conservation practices, community response to natural hazards and the effects of climate change.

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