The Principles of Sustainability. This item is unavailable.The Principles of Sustainability

At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration, sustainability is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? This text tackles these questions directly. It goes beyond rhetoric to explain the deeper issues of sustainable development in a way that seeks to be accessible and interesting to the non-specialist reader. It covers: historical development of the concept of sustainability; contemporary debates about how to achieve it; and obstacles and the prospects for overcoming them. The work should be useful to students, academics and activists concerned with sustainable development. It assumes no previous knowledge of the subject.

A great refresher course for those already somewhat familiar with
the ideas. It's very thorough.
-- Clean Slate

An entertaining, informative and sometimes downright irreverent
romp through the ragged peaks and swampy hinterland of sustainability. -- TIM JACKSON, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey

The readers who pick up this book... will find that they achieve a
better idea of the principles of sustainability. -- NEW AGRICULTURIST ON-LINE