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Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (470 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135040727
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.927
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- PART I History and evolution of the concept of sustainable development -- 1 Sustainable development: history and evolution of the concept -- PART II Institutional dimensions of sustainable development -- 2 Does illegality enable or undermine the sustainability of the globalising economy? -- 3 Global change, islands and sustainable development: islands of sustainability or analogues of the challenge of sustainable development? -- 4 'Uncertainty' in the professionalisation of sustainable development: the case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- 5 Population health: a fundamental marker of sustainable development -- 6 Education for sustainable development: challenges of a critical pedagogy -- PART III Environmental dimensions of sustainable development -- 7 Biodiversity and sustainable development -- 8 Water and sustainable development -- 9 Sustainable architecture -- 10 Sustainable design: concepts, methods and practices -- 11 Is managing ecosystem services necessary and sufficient to ensure sustainable development? -- 12 Conservation, sustainability and economic growth -- PART IV Social dimensions of sustainable development -- 13 Sustainable development: environmental justice and sustainability -- 14 Indigenous perspectives of sustainability and a human rights approach to sustainable development -- 15 The politics of sustainable consumption -- 16 Sustainable tourism development -- 17 Food and sustainable development: how should we feed the world? -- PART V Economic dimensions of sustainable development -- 18 Ecological economics and sustainable development: building a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature.
19 Sustainable development and the economic crisis under austerity: the experience of the United Kingdom -- 20 Indicators for sustainable development -- 21 Sustainable business: a critique of corporate social responsibility policies and practices -- 22 Urban transport and sustainable development -- 23 China's transition to sustainability: which direction to take? -- PART VI Sustainable development: future challenges -- 24 Agroecology as post-development discourse and practice -- 25 The social dimension of sustainable development in the top emitting countries' climate change policy -- 26 Sustainable development or the creeping incubation of disaster? -- 27 Women's 'right to sustainable development': integrating religion and a rights-based approach -- 28 From sustainable development to governance for sustainability -- Index.
Summary: This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book's theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume. The Handbook employs a critical framework that problematises the concept of sustainable development and the struggle between discursivity and control that has characterised the debate. It provides original　contributions from international experts coming from a variety of disciplines and regions, including the Global South. Comprehensive in scope, it covers, amongst other areas: Sustainable architecture and design Biodiversity Sustainable business　 Climate change Conservation Sustainable consumption De-growth Disaster management Eco-system services Education Environmental justice Food and sustainable development Governance Gender Health Indicators for sustainable development Indigenous perspectives Urban transport The Handbook offers researchers and students in the field of sustainable development invaluable insights into a contested concept and the alternative　worldviews　that it has fostered.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- PART I History and evolution of the concept of sustainable development -- 1 Sustainable development: history and evolution of the concept -- PART II Institutional dimensions of sustainable development -- 2 Does illegality enable or undermine the sustainability of the globalising economy? -- 3 Global change, islands and sustainable development: islands of sustainability or analogues of the challenge of sustainable development? -- 4 'Uncertainty' in the professionalisation of sustainable development: the case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- 5 Population health: a fundamental marker of sustainable development -- 6 Education for sustainable development: challenges of a critical pedagogy -- PART III Environmental dimensions of sustainable development -- 7 Biodiversity and sustainable development -- 8 Water and sustainable development -- 9 Sustainable architecture -- 10 Sustainable design: concepts, methods and practices -- 11 Is managing ecosystem services necessary and sufficient to ensure sustainable development? -- 12 Conservation, sustainability and economic growth -- PART IV Social dimensions of sustainable development -- 13 Sustainable development: environmental justice and sustainability -- 14 Indigenous perspectives of sustainability and a human rights approach to sustainable development -- 15 The politics of sustainable consumption -- 16 Sustainable tourism development -- 17 Food and sustainable development: how should we feed the world? -- PART V Economic dimensions of sustainable development -- 18 Ecological economics and sustainable development: building a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature.

19 Sustainable development and the economic crisis under austerity: the experience of the United Kingdom -- 20 Indicators for sustainable development -- 21 Sustainable business: a critique of corporate social responsibility policies and practices -- 22 Urban transport and sustainable development -- 23 China's transition to sustainability: which direction to take? -- PART VI Sustainable development: future challenges -- 24 Agroecology as post-development discourse and practice -- 25 The social dimension of sustainable development in the top emitting countries' climate change policy -- 26 Sustainable development or the creeping incubation of disaster? -- 27 Women's 'right to sustainable development': integrating religion and a rights-based approach -- 28 From sustainable development to governance for sustainability -- Index.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book's theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume. The Handbook employs a critical framework that problematises the concept of sustainable development and the struggle between discursivity and control that has characterised the debate. It provides original　contributions from international experts coming from a variety of disciplines and regions, including the Global South. Comprehensive in scope, it covers, amongst other areas: Sustainable architecture and design Biodiversity Sustainable business　 Climate change Conservation Sustainable consumption De-growth Disaster management Eco-system services Education Environmental justice Food and sustainable development Governance Gender Health Indicators for sustainable development Indigenous perspectives Urban transport The Handbook offers researchers and students in the field of sustainable development invaluable insights into a contested concept and the alternative　worldviews　that it has fostered.

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