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SUSTAINABILITY : if it's everything, is it nothing?.
Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Government responses to the sustainability challenge -- The implementation gap -- International commitments to sustainable development -- Rio and Agenda 21 -- The millennium development goals -- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- The Johannesburg plan of implement...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
CRC Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Critical Issues in Global Politics Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Organization of the book
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why do we define?
- A universally accepted definition?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 1 A brief history: the early debates that shaped sustainability
- Preservation or conservation?
- Limits and growth
- The physical laws of thermodynamics
- Summary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 2 A brief history: international sustainable development events, agreements, and commitments
- "Sustainability's" timeline
- The Brundtland Report
- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
- the Rio Conference
- World summit on sustainable development
- Johannesburg
- Rio +20, SDGs, and climate meetings
- Summary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3 Multidisciplinary influences in defining sustainability
- The natural sciences
- Biodiversity and resilience
- Maximum sustainable yield
- Economics
- Ecological economics
- Weak and strong sustainability
- A steady state economy
- The social sciences
- Political science
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Anthropology
- The RobecoSAM index
- The Environmental Performance Index
- Yale University
- The Sustainable Society Foundation
- High achievers
- Finland
- High achievers
- Sweden
- Changing world leadership in the Global North
- History
- The United States today
- Europe today
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 5 Non-governmental organizations and sustainability
- Sustainability and business
- "Greenwashing"
- The transportation sector
- Non-governmental organizations
- Higher education institutions
- Individuals and sustainable living
- Summary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Neo-sustainability
- Redefining sustainability
- Neo-sustainability
- The three rules of neo-sustainability
- Situating neo-sustainability in existing frameworks
- The spaceman economy
- The natural step
- Environmental justice
- The ecological footprint
- Cradle to cradle
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Appendix: the Rio Principles
- excerpted from the Rio Declaration, UNCED (1992)
- Index