Global environmental sustainability : case studies and analysis of the United Nation's journey toward sustainable development /
"A systematic, integrated framework for examining progress toward sustainable development and understanding how to move forward on a global scale. Key features: provides a systematic exposition of sustainable development in all its complexity, with all the chapters complementing each other in a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "A systematic, integrated framework for examining progress toward sustainable development and understanding how to move forward on a global scale. Key features: provides a systematic exposition of sustainable development in all its complexity, with all the chapters complementing each other in an integral way; presents extensive empirical evidence of various environmental problems across the world including China, the United Statess, Canada, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa, and the extent to which the United Nations has succeeded in driving toward global environmental sustainability; provides a cogent examination of the treatment of our global commons by some of the world's most powerful leaders; includes data from field studies and in-depth interviews with indigenous people in Borneo's rainforests of the Malaysian state of Sarawak most affected by environmental change." -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 435 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780128224137 0128224134 0128224193 9780128224199 |