Format:
Book
Author:
Thiele, Leslie Paul.
Title:
Sustainability / Leslie Paul Thiele.
Publisher, Date:
Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2013.
Description:
viii, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, widespread initiatives within civil society and business, historic policies for municipal, regional, and national governments, and crucial protocols and agreements by international organizations. Increasingly, sustainability provides a common language and goal for diverse peoples and nations. Yet the meaning of sustainability remains unsettled, and the term frequently serves as a PR strategy, a green veneer for business as usual, rather than a driver of fundamental change. This book provides a broad-ranging introduction to the concept and practice of sustainability today. It addresses the history, scope, and contested meanings of sustainability as an ethical ideal, an ascendant ideology, and a common sense approach to living in an ever more crowded world of increasingly scarce resources. Key topics covered include environmental health and ecological resilience, the promise and unintended consequences of technology, political and legal challenges, economic limits and opportunities, and cultural change. Unlike most other approaches to this crucial topic, the author argues that sustainability requires innovation and adaptation as much as the conservation of resources. His book is a resource for environmental studies and related areas.
Series:
Key concepts.
Subjects:
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development -- Social aspects.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-229) and index.
Contents:
Sustainability and Time -- The Geography of Sustainability -- Ecological Resilience and Environmental Health -- Technological Solutions and Their Problems -- The Political and Legal Challenge -- Sustaining Economies -- Culture and Change.
LCCN:
2012277462
ISBN:
0745656102
9780745656106 (pbk.)
Other Number:
812070780
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3149445
Call Number:
338.927
Course Reserves:
0
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