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Author | : Robert Brian Griffin |
Publisher | : Royal British Columbia Museum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780772669742 |
"In The Sustainability Dilemma, historians Robert Griffin and Richard A. Rajala delve into two of the more controversial issues British Columbian's have faced over the past 60 years--the management of our forest industry and its impact on our freshwater ecosystems."--
Author | : Robert Paehlke |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780262661881 |
A call for a balancing of economic, environmental, and social concerns in the age of global economic integration.
Author | : John M. Meyer |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-03-13 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0262527383 |
"Meyer pioneers a uniquely political approach to environmental social criticism that follows from a startling central propostion: that it is not outright oppression and denialism that are the most significant impediments but what he aptly terms the 'resonance dilemma.' This is the failure of climate and environmental challenges - however important we may grant that they are - to strike us as integral everyday concerns. This lively, eloquent, accessible volume models the very style of social criticism that it calls for in response to this dilemma: a 'resonant' environmental criticism that works on (rather than against) everyday practices." Lisa Disch, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy.
Author | : Peter Schmuck |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1461509955 |
Human activity overuses the resources of the planet at a rate that will severely compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Changes toward sustainability need to begin within the next few years or environmental deterioration will become irreversible. Thus the need to develop a mindset of sustainable development - the ability of society to meet its needs without permanently compromising the earth's resources - is pressing. The Psychology of Sustainable Development clarifies the meaning of the term and describes the conditions necessary for it to occur. With contributions from an international team of policy shapers and makers, the book will be an important reference for environmental, developmental, social, and organizational psychologists, in addition to other social scientists concerned with the impact current human activity will have on the prospects of future generations.
Author | : Abbas Rajabifard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-10-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781032920931 |
To strengthen urban and rural resilience to global challenges, this book brings together global leading geospatial experts, industry actors, and policy-makers to analyse the role of geospatial data infrastructures and services for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and providing interdisciplinary and multisectoral analysis.
Author | : Ariane König |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317216628 |
Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue or method of sustainability science. Contributing authors offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, including physics, philosophy of science, agronomy, geography, and the learning sciences. This book equips readers with a better understanding of how one might actively design, engage in, and guide collaborative processes for transforming human-environment-technology interactions, whilst embracing complexity, contingency, uncertainties, and contradictions emerging from diverse values and world views. Each reader of this book will thus have guidance on how to create and/or engage in similar initiatives or courses in their own context. Sustainability Science: Key Issues is the ideal book for students and researchers engaged in problem and project based learning in sustainability science.
Author | : Robert Mugerauer |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780739120583 |
Environmental Dilemmas focuses on the ethical problems and dilemmas that emerge in place-based professional practices_architecture, landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and construction management. Mugerauer and Manzo connect decision-making to major ethical theories, principles, and rules, and professional codes of ethics.
Author | : Ligang Song |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1921536039 |
China's Dilemma - Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change examines the challenges China will have to confront in order to maintain rapid growth while coping with the global financial turbulence, some rising socially destabilising tensions such as income inequality, an over-exploited environment and the long-term pressures of global warming. China's Dilemma discusses key questions that will have an impact on China's growth path and offers some in-depth analyses as to how China could confront these challenges. The authors address the effect of the global credit crunch and financial shocks on China's economic growth; China's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and emissions reduction schemes; the environmental consequences of foreign direct investment in China; the relationship between air pollution and mortality; the effect of climate change on agricultural output; the coal industry's compliance with tougher regulations; and the constraints water shortages may impose on China's economy. It also emphasises the importance of managing the rising demand for energy to moderate oil price increases and placating domestic and international concerns about global warming. In the thirty years since China started on the path of reform, it has emerged as one of the largest and most dynamic economies in the world. This carries with it the responsibility to balance the requirements of key industries that are driving its development with the need to ensure that its growth is both equitable and sustainable. China's Dilemma highlights key lessons learned from the past thirty years of reform in order to pave the way for balanced and sustained growth in the future.
Author | : Arno Kopecky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781770416093 |
In The Environmentalist's Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity's doing better than ever. Inquisitive and relatable, he guides us through the moral minefields of our polarized world.
Author | : William D. Nordhaus |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1135891451 |
Renowned economist William Nordhaus has developed many innovative approaches for analyzing complex environmental questions. He applies them to the possible phaseout of nuclear power in Sweden in The Swedish Nuclear Dilemma: Energy and the Environment. While making a major contribution to that debate, this book has value that extends well beyond the Swedish issue, to the careful and well-informed consideration of environmental and energy questions that industrialized nations and developing regions now face. It is essential for anyone interested in nuclear-power issues and climate change. The Swedish parliament has moved closer to eliminating nuclear energy, even while repeating commitments to reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions associated with fossil fuels. Nordhaus's Swedish Energy and Environmental Policy (SEEP) model quantifies the economic results of such a path. He analyzes the impact of factors such as deregulation of electricity generation, global climate-change policies, the decline of Sweden's economic growth, and the rethinking of its welfare state. He also sets the stage for more informed analysis of similarly difficult issues where economic and environmental goals clash.