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Intrinsic sustainable development : epistemes, science, business and sustainability / Frank Birkin, Thomas Polesie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birkin, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century. Human technological capability and needs mean that nature is and will be challenged and damaged in many ways. Whilst many social and technological innovations are being made to improve our survival prospects, they are likely to be insufficient to avoid continued social and ecological stress and the prospect of global tension if significant changes do not come about. The ideas in this book offer a new solution to sustainable development problems. They are concerned not with what we know but how we know, or rather how we order knowled
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Approach
- pt. 2. Modern times
- pt. 3. Primal knowledge
- pt. 4. Consequences.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-66959-4
- 9786613646521
- 981-4365-01-7
- OCLC:
- 775298203
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