Sustainability : the basics /

"Sustainability is concerned with the issues around the ongoing and mutual preservation of both society and the environment. It is a widely used term and supposed goal for many governments but it is also easily misunderstood. Sustainability: The Basics offers an accessible and interdisciplinary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacques, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Basics (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sustainability : What is at Stake?
  • Principles and Patterns in Systems
  • Endurance and Ruin : An Economic Memoire
  • Measuring Sustainability
  • Ethics, Justice, Moral Order and Oblivion
  • Politics at the End of the World
  • The Collapse of Civilizations and Dark Ages
  • Conclusion.