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基本説明
It covers: historical development of the concept of sustainability and contemporary debates about how to achieve it.
Full Description
At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration, sustainability is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? This text tackles these questions directly. It goes beyond rhetoric to explain the deeper issues of sustainable development in a way that seeks to be accessible and interesting to the non-specialist reader. It covers: historical development of the concept of sustainability; contemporary debates about how to achieve it; and obstacles and the prospects for overcoming them. The work should be useful to students, academics and activists concerned with sustainable development. It assumes no previous knowledge of the subject.
Contents
Introduction; Part I: Past Progress and its Discontents; From Muir to Meadow; Sustainability Emerging; From Rio to Kyoto; Part II: Present; What does 'Sustainable Development' Mean?; Taking Sustainability in Economics; Putting a Price on the Planet; The Ethics of Sustainability; Part III: Future; The End of Sustainability; Bibliography, Index