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Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice
Pamela Matson
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Description for Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 halftones. 17 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: RNC; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food, water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world. Written by leading experts, Pursuing Sustainability shows how more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives can help you achieve your sustainability objectives. It stresses the need for understanding how capital assets are linked ... Read more
Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food, water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world. Written by leading experts, Pursuing Sustainability shows how more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives can help you achieve your sustainability objectives. It stresses the need for understanding how capital assets are linked ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
584g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157610
SKU
V9780691157610
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99-50
About Pamela Matson
Pamela Matson is dean of the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies at Stanford University. William C. Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Krister Andersson is professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. ... Read more
Reviews for Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice
A valuable resource for academic learning in higher education settings, as well as an informative tool to guide the practice of sustainability in institutional environments... The framework they have presented in this book is adaptable for numerous social-ecological contexts at multiple scales for people working together to create change in pursuit of sustainable development and promote well-being of people for ... Read more