ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT & SUSTAINABIL: Perspectives and cases from around the world - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199560641 ISBN 13: 9780199560646

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Experts present multiple perspectives on sustainable development to show how environment, development and sustainability intertwine to form an issue of truly global concern.

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About the Author

Gordon Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Technology and Development at the Open University, where he is Director of the inter-faculty Environment, Development and International Studies Programme. His research interests are in collective knowledge construction and the role of scientists, technologists, and other professional agents in development practice. He has undertaken research in Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Algeria. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.


Pamela Furniss is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Systems at the Open University. She has many years experience of writing teaching materials for the university on a wide range of environmental subjects, principally in the areas of water resource management. She was Course Team Chair for the production of Environmental decision making: a systems approach (T863).


Richard Kimbowa works for Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development (UCSD), a local membership advocacy NGO. He is an alumnus of the OU's M.Sc Development Mangement Programme (2003-2006). He is professionally interested in civil society as mechanisms and institutions to secure sustainable development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199560641
• ISBN 13: 9780199560646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss, Richard Kimbowa