The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture, innovative policies and laws, and historic international agreements. Yet the means to achieving sustainability remain unsettled and disputed, even as its crucial importance in the face of the climate crisis grows.
The third edition of this popular and lively text explores the concept and practice of sustainability across a broad range of issues and topics. Fully revised and updated, the book underlines the importance of creativity in the service of conservation within ecological, economic, technological, political, legal, and cultural arenas. Chapters conclude with new Discuss, Explore, and Take Action sections that pose probing questions for review and discussion. A new final chapter presents four practical principles that readers may employ to guide the investigation of sustainability problems and their crafting of viable solutions.
Sustainability presents a hopeful account of the opportunities before us while squarely confronting the daunting challenges that lie ahead. It provides a crucial resource for students grappling with many of the most urgent issues of our time.
By:
Leslie Paul Thiele (University of Florida Gainesville FL)
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd edition
Dimensions:
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781509560295
ISBN 10: 1509560297
Series: Key Concepts
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 29 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Sustainability: Past, Present, Future 2 The Geography of Justice 3 Ecological Resilience and Environmental Health 4 Economics and Wellbeing 5 Technological Solutions and their Problems 6 The Political and Legal Challenge 7 Culture and Change 8 Practical Principles for a Sustainable World Further Reading Notes Index
Leslie Paul Thiele is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of Sustainability Studies at the University of Florida.
Reviews for Sustainability
“This is still the best book on sustainability in print. Whether and how humankind survives the coming bottleneck is the issue of our time. Leslie Paul Thiele is a thoughtful and insightful guide to the perplexing and complex challenges ahead.” David Orr, Arizona State University “Leslie Paul Thiele’s improved third edition of Sustainability is an excellent way to introduce students to the greatest ecological problem facing global society today—overshoot, of which climate change is a major symptom. It should be on every environmental reading list.” William Rees, University of British Columbia
