Pursuing sustainability
Subtitle: a guide to the science and practice
By: Pamela Matson, William C. Clark, and Krister Andersson
Contributors: Clark, William C., 1948- author; Andersson, Krister, 1965- author
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780691157610; 9781400881215
Subjects: Ecology; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Sustainable development; Environmental responsibility; NATURE; Hållbar utveckling; 43.47 global environmental themes; Sustainability; Environmental Policy; Environmental Conservation & Protection; Public Policy; Duurzaamheid (milieu)
Description: "Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food, water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world. Written by leading experts, Pursuing Sustainability shows how more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives can help you achieve your sustainability objectives. It stresses the need for understanding how capital assets are linked to sustainability goals through the complex adaptive dynamics of social-environmental systems, how committed people can use governance processes to alter those dynamics, and how successful interventions can be shaped through collaborations among researchers and practitioners on the ground. The ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and an invaluable resource for anyone working in this fast-growing field, Pursuing Sustainability also features case studies, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading. Provides a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action Draws on the latest cutting-edge science and practices. Serves as the ideal companion text to more narrowly focused courses. Utilizes interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives. Illustrates concepts with a core set of case studies used throughout the book. Written by world authorities on sustainability. An online illustration package is available to professors"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pursuing sustainability : an introduction; title: A framework for sustainability analysis : linking ultimate goals with their underlying determinants; title: Dynamics of social-environmental systems; title: Governance in social-environmental systems; title: Linking knowledge with action; title: Next steps : contributing to a sustainability transition.