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Sustainability / Thomas Pfister, Martin Schweighofer and Andre Reichel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfister, Thomas (Professor of sociology), author.
- Series:
- Key ideas.
- Key Ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Sustainable development--Social aspects.
- Sustainable development--Economic aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Clean energy.
- Food supply.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Instead of providing a shopping list of textbook definitions of sustainability, the book will be a highly readable critical evaluation of the concept's evolution and use in politics, business and society.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical reflection : a brief genealogy of sustainable development
- 3. Sustainability and climate change
- 4. Sustainability and energy systems
- 5. Sustainability and food systems
- 6. Sustainability as transformation and reflexivity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-68805-9
- 1-315-88288-4
- 9781315882888
- OCLC:
- 953691652
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