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1 online resource |
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Online access with DDA: Askews (Economics)
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- About the companion website -- Chapter 1 Roots of the modern sustainability movement -- Meaning of sustainability -- Nineteenth century environmentalism -- Pinchot, Roosevelt, and Muir -- Aldo Leopold and the land ethic -- Better living through chemistry, the Great Smog of 1952, and Rachel Carson -- Environmental activism of the 1960s and 1970s and the development of environmental policy -- The growth of environmental laws in the 1960s and 1970s -- The first Earth Day -- International concerns -- Ozone and the world comes together -- Globalization and the Brundtland Report -- Deep ecology -- Environmental justice -- Measuring sustainability -- The road ahead -- Organization -- Chapter 2 Understanding natural systems -- The Earth, its layers, and the rock cycle -- The rock cycle -- Biogeochemical cycles -- Water and the water cycle -- The carbon cycle and global climate change -- The sulfur cycle -- The nitrogen and phosphorus cycles -- Organisms and ecosystems -- Urban ecosystems -- Understanding the Anthropocene -- Chapter 3 Measuring sustainability -- The United Nations Millennium Goals -- Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger -- Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education -- Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women -- Goal 4. Reduce child mortality rates -- Goal 5. Improve maternal health -- Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases -- Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability -- Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development -- National sustainability planning -- Canada -- Bhutan -- Regional sustainability planning -- Local sustainability measurement -- Green local governments in Florida -- Specific community plans -- PlaNYC -- London and sustainability -- Small towns and sustainability |
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Business sustainability -- Personal sustainability -- Chapter 4 Energy -- World energy production and consumption -- Traditional or "dirty" energy resources -- Oil -- Oil shale and tar sands -- Natural gas -- Coal -- Green energy -- Biomass -- Wind energy -- Solar energy -- Nuclear energy -- Other innovations -- Energy efficiency -- Living off the grid -- Chapter 5 Global climate change and greenhouse gas management -- The end of nature? -- The science of global climate change -- The greenhouse effect -- Sinks of carbon -- Forests -- Reefs -- The IPCC and evidence for climate change, and the future of our planet -- Ocean acidification -- Phenological changes -- Conducting greenhouse gas inventories -- Step 1 Setting boundaries -- Step 2 Defining scope -- Step 3 Choosing a quantitative approach -- Step 4 Setting a baseline year -- Step 5 Engaging stakeholders -- Step 6 Procuring certification -- Greenhouse gas equivalents used in greenhouse gas accounting -- Greenhouse gas emission scopes -- De minimis emissions -- Computing greenhouse gas credits -- Climate action plans -- Religion and climate change -- Evangelical Environmental Network -- Young Evangelicals for Climate Action -- Catholic Climate Covenant -- Jewish Climate Change Campaign -- The International Muslim Conference on Climate Change -- Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change -- Hindu Declaration on Climate Change -- Art, culture, and climate change -- Swoon -- Raul Cardenas Osuna and Toro Labs -- Isaac Cordal -- Chapter 6 Water -- Sources of water -- Consumption trends -- Sources of water pollution -- Agricultural pollution -- Industrial pollution -- Storm water pollution -- Sewage -- Leaking underground tanks -- Landfills -- Water management and conservation -- National and regional water conservation and management -- Water supply management -- Water management and innovation |
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Water quality -- Understanding drainage basins -- Drainage basins out of synch -- Drainage basin pollution -- Stream profile and base level -- Lakes -- Seas -- Oceans -- Chapter 7 Food and agriculture -- Development of modern agriculture -- Meat production -- World agricultural statistics -- Food deserts and obesity -- Reactions to the high-tech agricultural movement -- Vegetarianism and veganism -- Organic farming -- Small farm movement -- Locavores -- Farm to table -- Community sponsored agriculture -- Community gardens -- Farmers markets -- Beekeeping -- The urban chicken movement -- Guerilla gardening, freegans, and other radical approaches to food -- Chapter 8 Green building -- LEED rating systems -- Site selection -- Brownfield development -- Other aspects of sustainable building siting -- Water use -- Energy and atmospheric health -- Materials and resources -- Materials re-use -- Recycled content of construction material -- Locally derived materials -- Renewable materials and certified sustainable wood -- Waste management -- Summary -- Indoor environmental quality -- Ventilation and air delivery monitoring -- Construction indoor air quality management -- Use of low-emitting materials -- Indoor chemical and pollution source control -- Controllability and design of lighting and temperature systems -- Access to daylight -- Summary -- Innovation -- Regional priorities -- Expansion of green building technology -- Other green building rating systems -- BREEAM -- PassivHaus -- Green building policy -- Critiques of green building -- The greenest building and historic preservation -- Small house movement -- Further reading -- Chapter 9 Transportation -- Transportation options -- Vehicles and roads -- Vehicles and fuels -- Rail -- Ship transport -- Air transport -- Space travel -- Roads -- Environmental issues with roads -- Mass transit |
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Forms of mass transit -- Transit hubs and transit oriented development -- The future -- Chapter 10 Pollution and waste -- Pollution -- Chemical pollution -- Heat pollution -- Light pollution -- Noise pollution -- Visual pollution -- Littering -- Understanding pollution distribution -- The US approach to pollution -- Clean Air Act -- Clean Water Act -- National Environmental Policy Act -- Superfund -- Sewage treatment -- Sewage and sustainability -- Garbage and recycling -- Garbage composition -- Managing garbage -- Reducing waste -- Composting -- Recycling -- Chapter 11 Environmental justice -- Social justice -- Civil rights and the modern environmental movement in the United States -- Lead pollution and the growth of the urban environmental justice movement -- Environmental racism in the United States -- Brownfields, community re-development, and environmental justice -- US EPA and environmental justice -- Native Americans and environmental justice -- Exporting environmental problems -- Environmental justice around the world -- Environmental justice in Europe -- Environmental justice in Asia and the Pacific -- Environmental justice in Africa -- Environmental justice in Latin America and the Caribbean: oil pollution in Ecuador -- Environmental justice in a Globalized World -- Chapter 12 Sustainability planning and governance -- Local governments and their structure -- The role of citizens and stakeholders in local government -- Community stakeholders -- Boundaries and types of local governments -- Leadership -- Efforts to aid local governments on sustainability issues -- Scale and local governments -- Green regional development -- Sustainable development -- Globalization -- Development of globalization -- Drivers of globalization -- War and sustainability -- Scallops and economic development -- Further reading |
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Chapter 13 Sustainability, economics, and the global commons -- The global commons -- Economic processes that put the Earth out of balance -- Social and economic theories -- Neoclassical economics -- Environmental economics -- Green economics -- Non-capitalistic economies -- Deep ecology -- Ecofeminism -- Destruction regardless of theory -- Environmental economics: externalities -- Measuring the economy -- Green jobs -- Cost-benefit analysis and its application in environmental economics -- Environmental impact assessment -- Environmental ethics -- Chapter 14 Corporate and organizational sustainability management -- Cognitive dissonance -- Why are businesses concerned with sustainability? -- Profit -- Public relations -- Altruism -- Concern over the long-term sustainability of the industry -- Professional standards and norms -- Total quality management and sustainability -- People, planet, and profits -- Ray Anderson, the father of the green corporation and the growth of green corporate environmentalism -- Anderson's legacy -- Greenwashing in the corporate world -- Green consumers -- Global Reporting Initiative -- Sustainability reporting in the S & P 500 -- Dow Jones Sustainability Index -- Sustainability reporting -- International Organization for Standardization (ISO): ISO 14000 and ISO 26000 -- ISO 14000 -- ISO 26000 -- Case studies of sustainability at the corporate level -- Wal-Mart -- Unilever -- Lessons from Wal-Mart and Unilever -- Can businesses with unsustainable products be sustainable? -- Chapter 15 Sustainability at universities, colleges, and schools -- Curriculum at colleges and universities -- Sustainability curriculum at K-12 schools -- External benchmarking -- American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education -- American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment -- Other external benchmarking organizations |
| Summary |
This title reviews major themes in the cutting-edge field of sustainability. It is suitable for introductory interdisciplinary courses on sustainability, as well as those in the fields of geography, geology, sociology, planning, political science, and anthropology. Introduction to Sustainability is the first major textbook to review major themes in the cutting-edge field of sustainability. The book is suitable for introductory interdisciplinary courses on sustainability, as well as those in the fields of geography, geology, sociology, planning, political science, and anthropology. Brinkmann's book allows students to see the world in new ways while also encouraging them to become part of the change needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of the planet. The text includes material on the development of the field of sustainability; environmental sustainability issues like water, food, and energy; social sustainability themes like environmental justice and transportation; and economic sustainability topics like green businesses and economic development. The book concludes with a chapter on sustainability issues in college and universities. Brinkmann intersperses many fascinating case studies and text boxes that encourage students to deeply explore the material. This is a book that not only organizes the complex field of sustainability, but also encourages students to take action to make the world a better place |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sustainable development.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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sustainable development.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects
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Sustainable development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1118487249 |
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9781118487242 |
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9781118487211 |
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1118487214 |
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1787850722 |
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9781787850729 |
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