Sustainability science

By:

Vries, Bert J. M. de

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press New York 2024Edition: 2ndDescription: xxxii, 614 pISBN:

9781009300216

Subject(s):

Sustainable development--Research

DDC classification:

338.927072 VRI

Summary: The fully updated second edition of this innovative textbook provides a system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. To an extent unparalleled in other textbooks, the latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad and deep transdisciplinary framework. Readers are encouraged to explore and engage with sustainability issues through the lenses of a cultural and methodological pluralism which promotes dialogue and alliances in the search for a (more) sustainable future. Ideal for students and their teachers in sustainable development, environmental science and policy, ecology, conservation, natural resources and geopolitics, the book will also appeal to interested citizens, activists, and policymakers, exposing them to the variety of perspectives on sustainability issues. Review questions and exercises provide the opportunity for consolidation and reflection. Online resources include appendices with more advanced mathematical material, model answers, and a wealth of recommended additional sources. (https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/sustainability-science-2nd-edition?format=PB)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	338.927072 VRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		007976

Table of contents:
Foreword
Preface
List of acronyms and abbreviations
List of units
Part I. Setting the Stage:
1. Sustainable development: a personal and societal aspiration
2. Sustainable science: context and content
Part II. The State We're In and How We Got There:
3. Early states and civilisations
4. Industrialisation: the great acceleration
5. Modernity: the idea of progress
Part III. Engagement through Worldviews:
6. The worldview framework
7. Worldviews: values, beliefs, ethics
Part IV. Understanding Sustainable Development:
8. Understanding, modelling, managing complexity
9. Modelling sustainable development
Part V. Sustainability Themes:
10. Concepts, methods and indicators
11. Population: humans and their habitat
12. Pillars of development: health, education and mobility
13. Nature: the life-support system
14. Renewable resources: fisheries and forests
15. Land and agro-food systems
16. Water: the precious resource
17. Energy: to a carbon-free supply
18. Materials: towards a circular economy
19. The economy
Part VI. Closure:
20. Stories about the future
Glossary
References
Index.
(https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/sustainability-science-2nd-edition?format=PB)

The fully updated second edition of this innovative textbook provides a system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. To an extent unparalleled in other textbooks, the latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad and deep transdisciplinary framework. Readers are encouraged to explore and engage with sustainability issues through the lenses of a cultural and methodological pluralism which promotes dialogue and alliances in the search for a (more) sustainable future. Ideal for students and their teachers in sustainable development, environmental science and policy, ecology, conservation, natural resources and geopolitics, the book will also appeal to interested citizens, activists, and policymakers, exposing them to the variety of perspectives on sustainability issues. Review questions and exercises provide the opportunity for consolidation and reflection. Online resources include appendices with more advanced mathematical material, model answers, and a wealth of recommended additional sources.

(https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/sustainability-science-2nd-edition?format=PB)

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