Understanding sustainable development.
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TextPublication details: London : Earthscan, 2008.Description: 288 pISBN: - 9781844074549
- 338.927
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Sustainable development is notoriously difficult to grasp for students and professionals. Multidimensional, encompassing social, ecological and economic theories, policies and practice, it can be a maze of complexity and contradiction. This powerful new textbook, by a topic instructor in the field, is the first to unravel sustainable development and provide readers with the deep understanding so often missing in other texts. The book adopts a multi-perspective approach designed specifically to allow access to the topic from a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds and to develop understanding of a diversity of approaches and traditions at different levels. It features multiple entry points, explains jargon and explores controversies. Also offering boxed examples from the local to the global, Understanding Sustainable Development is the most complete guide to the subject for course leaders, students and self-learners.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes (p. vii)
- Introduction (p. ix)
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations (p. xv)
- 1 Globalization and Sustainable Development (p. 1)
- 2 Worldviews and Ethical Values - Towards an Ecological Paradigm (p. 27)
- 3 Cultural and Contested Understandings of Science and Sustainability (p. 51)
- 4 Connecting the Social with the Environmental: Social Capital and Environmental Justice (p. 75)
- 5 Sustainable Development, Politics and Governance (p. 99)
- 6 Beyond the Imperatives of Economic Growth and 'Business as Usual' (p. 123)
- 7 Envisioning a Sustainable Society (p. 149)
- 8 Tools and Systems for Sustainability (p. 173)
- 9 Communication and Learning for Sustainability (p. 199)
- 10 Leading the Sustainability Process (p. 225)
- References (p. 251)
- Appendix 1 The Earth Charter (p. 273)
- Appendix 2 Principles of Environmental Justice (p. 275)
- Appendix 3 Shenzhen Declaration on EcoCity Development (p. 277)
- Index (p. 279)