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Full Description
The fully updated second edition of this innovative textbook provides a system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. To an extent unparalleled in other textbooks, the latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad and deep transdisciplinary framework. Readers are encouraged to explore and engage with sustainability issues through the lenses of a cultural and methodological pluralism which promotes dialogue and alliances in the search for a (more) sustainable future. Ideal for students and their teachers in sustainable development, environmental science and policy, ecology, conservation, natural resources and geopolitics, the book will also appeal to interested citizens, activists, and policymakers, exposing them to the variety of perspectives on sustainability issues. Review questions and exercises provide the opportunity for consolidation and reflection. Online resources include appendices with more advanced mathematical material, model answers, and a wealth of recommended additional sources.
Contents
Foreword; Preface; List of acronyms and abbreviations; List of units; Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Sustainable development: a personal and societal aspiration; 2. Sustainable science: context and content; Part II. The State We're In and How We Got There: 3. Early states and civilisations; 4. Industrialisation: the great acceleration; 5. Modernity: the idea of progress; Part III. Engagement through Worldviews: 6. The worldview framework; 7. Worldviews: values, beliefs, ethics; Part IV. Understanding Sustainable Development: 8. Understanding, modelling, managing complexity; 9. Modelling sustainable development; Part V. Sustainability Themes: 10. Concepts, methods and indicators; 11. Population: humans and their habitat; 12. Pillars of development: health, education and mobility; 13. Nature: the life-support system; 14. Renewable resources: fisheries and forests; 15. Land and agro-food systems; 16. Water: the precious resource; 17. Energy: to a carbon-free supply; 18. Materials: towards a circular economy; 19. The economy; Part VI. Closure: 20. Stories about the future; Glossary; References; Index.
