'Sustainability: Key Issues' is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. Each chapter covers one key idea, and has been written by an expert in that field.--
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- PART I Defining sustainability -- Introduction: the emergence and development of sustainability -- 1 Sustainability, the metaphysics of mastery and transcendent nature -- 2 Reconstructing the sustainability narrative: separating myth from reality -- PART II Measuring and assessing sustainability -- 3 Ethics in sustainability indexes -- 4 Navigating towards sustainability: essential aspects of assessment and indicators -- 5 Concepts, methodologies, data and tools to assess water use -- PART III Governing, business and managing sustainability -- 6 Sustainable consumption and its discontents -- 7 The future we want: Post Rio+20 sustainable development goals and the role of education for sustainable development -- 8 Sustainability 2.0: new strategies for achieving behaviour change in a more connected world -- 9 CSR, voluntary standards and sustainability -- 10 Business and production solutions: closing loops and the circular economy -- PART IV Globalization, growth and environmental change -- 11 Economic growth and sustainability -- 12 Population matters -- 13 Urban sustainability -- 14 Sustainable rural development and livelihoods -- PART V Sustainability and ethics -- 15 Environmental politics, animal rights and ecological justice -- 16 Environmental ethics for tomorrow: sustaining the biosphere -- 17 Is 'sustainability' the same as 'sustainable development'? -- Glossary -- Index.
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