Sustainable Development

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-52015-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 2360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 4176 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in the Environment

The United Nations has pithily defined sustainable development as progress that ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. But sustainable development remains highly contested and is subject to a wide variety of interpretations, applications, and criticisms. Moreover, those seeking fully to understand this critical concept are confronted with a (sometimes dispiritingly) voluminous body of scholarly, polemical, and journalistic writing.

Edited by the acclaimed author of Understanding Sustainable Development (Earthscan, 2008), this new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in the Environment series answers the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the vast literature on sustainable development, and the continuing explosion in research output.

Drawing on a wide variety of sources that take full cognizance of the rich background and necessary adaptability of the concept to the imperatives of time, place, and culture, and which emphasize its connected and transdisciplinary nature, the editor has brought together in four volumes the canonical and the best cutting-edge work to produce an indispensable ‘mini library’. The collection covers the history, mediation, application, and likely future orientations of sustainable development, both conceptually and as a continually emerging practice.

Sustainable Development is fully indexed and includes comprehensive introductions, newly written by the editor, which place the collected materials in their historical and intellectual context. It is an essential reference collection and is certain to be valued by scholars and students—as well as serious policy-makers and practitioners—as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blewitt, John

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I

Part 1: Part 1: Sustainable Development: Issues and Perspectives

Part 2: Sustainable Development: A Systems Approach

Part 3: Sustainability Tools and Frameworks

Part 4: Risk, Sustainability Ethics, and the Precautionary Principle

Volume II

Part 5: Climate Change

Part 6: Conservation and Sustainable Development

Part 7: Water, Energy, and Food

Part 8: Industrial Ecology, Design, and Technology

Volume III

Part 9: Sustainable Cities

Part 10: Building Sustainable Communities

Part 11: Environmental Justice

Part 12: Communication, Learning, and Education

Volume IV

Part 13: Economics and Capitalism

Part 14: Business and Corporate Responsibility

Part 15: Ecological Modernization

Part 16: Political Consumerism