Sustainable Development

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2360 Seiten

2013
Routledge
978-0-415-52015-7 (ISBN)

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A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Environment, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on sustainable development.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.8.2013
Reihe/Serie	Critical Concepts in the Environment
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	4176 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-415-52015-0 / 0415520150
ISBN-13	978-0-415-52015-7 / 9780415520157
Zustand	Neuware