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Key Issues
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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
Book Details
INFORMATION
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
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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