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Routledge international handbook of sustainable development / edited by Michael Redclift and Delyse Springett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge international handbooksPublisher: London : Routledge 2015Description: 462 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415838429 (hbk.) :
  • 9781135040703 (Mobipocket ebook) :
Other title:
  • International handbook of sustainable development
  • Sustainable development
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.927 RED
LOC classification:
  • HC79.E5 R675 2015
Contents:
Part IV.Social dimensions of sustainable development -- 13.Sustainable development: environmental justice and sustainability. Robert William Collin and Robin Morris Collin -- 14.Indigenous perspectives of sustainabilty and a human rights approach to sustainable development. Oscar A. Forero -- 15.The politics of sustainable consumption. Emma Hinton -- 16.Sustainable tourism development. Tony Johnston -- 17.Food and sustainable development: how should we feed the world? Colin Sage -- Part V.Economic dimensions of sustainable development - 18.Ecoological economics and sustainable development: building a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature. Robert Costanza ... [et al] -- 19.Sustainable development and the economic crisis under austerity: the experience of the United Kingdom. Michael Redclift and Emma Hinton -- 20.Indicators for sustainable development. Joachim H. Spangenberg -- 21.Sustainable business: a critique of corporate social responsibility policies and practices. Timothy Luke -- 22.Urban transport and sustainable development. Peter Newman, Anne Matan and James McIntosh -- 23.China\'s transition to sustainability: which direction to take? Arthur P. J. Mol -- Part Vi.Sustainable development future challenges -- 24.Agroecology as post-development discourse and practice. Graham Woodgate -- 25.The social dimension of sustainble development in the top emitting courntries\' climate change policy. Marco Grasso -- 26.Sustainable development or the creeping incubation of disaster? Raymond Murphy -- 27.Women\'s rights to sustainable development\': integrating religion and a rights-based approach. Hamini Narayanan -- 28.From sustainable develolpment to governance for sustainability. Ashira Mahan and Davide Manuel-Navarrete.
Part I.History and evolution of the concept of sustainable development -- 1.Sustainable development: history and evolution of the concept. Delyse Springett and Michael Redclift -- Part II.Institutional dimensions of sustainable development -- 2.Does illegality enable or undermine the sustainability of the globalising economy? Ray Hudson -- 3.Global change, islands and sustainable development: islands of sustainability or analogues of the challenge of sustainable development? C. Michael Hall -- 4.\'Uncertainty\' in the professionalisation of sustainable development: the case of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). Annika Skoglund and Tommy Jensen -- 5.Popuation health: a fundamental marker of sustainable development. Anthony J. McMichael -- 6.Education for sustainable development: challenges of a critical pedagogy. Delyse Springett -- Part III. Environmental dimensions of sustainable development -- 7.Biodiversity and sustainable development. Stewart Lockie and Hedda Ransan-Cooper -- 8.Water and sustainble development. Naho Mirumachi -- 9.Sustainable architecture. Keith Bothwell -- 10.Sustainable design: concepts, methods and practices. Martina Maria Keitsch -- 11.Is managing ecosystem services necessary and sufficient to ensure sustainable development? Mark Mulligan and Nicholas J. Clifford -- 12.Conservation, sustainability and economic growth. William M. Adams.
Summary: This handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of sustainable development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book's theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 338.927 RED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219132

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part IV.Social dimensions of sustainable development -- 13.Sustainable development: environmental justice and sustainability. Robert William Collin and Robin Morris Collin -- 14.Indigenous perspectives of sustainabilty and a human rights approach to sustainable development. Oscar A. Forero -- 15.The politics of sustainable consumption. Emma Hinton -- 16.Sustainable tourism development. Tony Johnston -- 17.Food and sustainable development: how should we feed the world? Colin Sage -- Part V.Economic dimensions of sustainable development - 18.Ecoological economics and sustainable development: building a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature. Robert Costanza ... [et al] -- 19.Sustainable development and the economic crisis under austerity: the experience of the United Kingdom. Michael Redclift and Emma Hinton -- 20.Indicators for sustainable development. Joachim H. Spangenberg -- 21.Sustainable business: a critique of corporate social responsibility policies and practices. Timothy Luke -- 22.Urban transport and sustainable development. Peter Newman, Anne Matan and James McIntosh -- 23.China\'s transition to sustainability: which direction to take? Arthur P. J. Mol -- Part Vi.Sustainable development future challenges -- 24.Agroecology as post-development discourse and practice. Graham Woodgate -- 25.The social dimension of sustainble development in the top emitting courntries\' climate change policy. Marco Grasso -- 26.Sustainable development or the creeping incubation of disaster? Raymond Murphy -- 27.Women\'s rights to sustainable development\': integrating religion and a rights-based approach. Hamini Narayanan -- 28.From sustainable develolpment to governance for sustainability. Ashira Mahan and Davide Manuel-Navarrete.

Part I.History and evolution of the concept of sustainable development -- 1.Sustainable development: history and evolution of the concept. Delyse Springett and Michael Redclift -- Part II.Institutional dimensions of sustainable development -- 2.Does illegality enable or undermine the sustainability of the globalising economy? Ray Hudson -- 3.Global change, islands and sustainable development: islands of sustainability or analogues of the challenge of sustainable development? C. Michael Hall -- 4.\'Uncertainty\' in the professionalisation of sustainable development: the case of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). Annika Skoglund and Tommy Jensen -- 5.Popuation health: a fundamental marker of sustainable development. Anthony J. McMichael -- 6.Education for sustainable development: challenges of a critical pedagogy. Delyse Springett -- Part III. Environmental dimensions of sustainable development -- 7.Biodiversity and sustainable development. Stewart Lockie and Hedda Ransan-Cooper -- 8.Water and sustainble development. Naho Mirumachi -- 9.Sustainable architecture. Keith Bothwell -- 10.Sustainable design: concepts, methods and practices. Martina Maria Keitsch -- 11.Is managing ecosystem services necessary and sufficient to ensure sustainable development? Mark Mulligan and Nicholas J. Clifford -- 12.Conservation, sustainability and economic growth. William M. Adams.

This handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of sustainable development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book's theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume.

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