Sustainability : key issues /
Contributor(s): Kopnina, Helen [editor.] | Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor [editor.].
Series: Key issues in environment and sustainability: Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015Description: xvii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780415529853; 9780415529853:; 0415529859; 9780415529860; 0415529867.Subject(s): Sustainability | Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 338.927Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 338.927 KOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0064262 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Defining sustainability / Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet -- Sustainability, the metaphysics of mastery, and transcendent nature / Michael Bonnett -- Reconstructing the sustainability narrative : separating myth from reality / Peter N. Nemetz -- Ethics in sustainability indexes / Sarah E. Fredericks -- Navigating towards sustainability: essential aspects of assessment and indicators / Waas T. Hugé, J. Verbruggen, A. Block, T -- Concepts, methodologies, data and tools to assess water use / Markus Pahlow -- Sustainable consumption and its discontents / Cindy Isenhour -- The future we want : post Rio+20 sustainable development goals and the role of education for sustainable development / Kamarulazizi Ibrahim, Kanayathu C Koshy and Walter Leal Filho -- Sustainability 2.0 : new strategies for achieving behavior change in a more connected world / Anna C. Evely, Mark S. Reed, David Adams, and Emily Lambert -- Csr, voluntary standards & sustainability / Thomas B. Long, Anne Tallontire, and William Young -- Business and production solutions : closing loops & the circular economy / Mike Tennant, Geraldine Brennan and Fenna Blomsma -- Economic growth and sustainability / Christian Kerschner, Daniel W. O'Neill -- Population matters / Blake Alcott -- Urban sustainability / John Blewitt -- Sustainable rural development and livelihoods / Andreas Neef -- Environmental politics, animal rights and ecological justice / Robert Garner -- Environmental ethics for tomorrow : sustaining the biosphere / Holmes Rolston III -- Is "sustainability" the same as "sustainable development"? / Haydn Washington.
This title is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.