Sustainability and Sustainable Development
an introduction
$208.24
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2023
Summary
The challenge in teaching an introductory course on sustainability is there are many ways to teach it, and many issues to cover. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals offer a cohesive and interconnected set of topics to help address this problem – indeed the SDGs are now the guiding framework for planning and implementing sustainability through 2030. They are the focus of international development efforts, and the lingua franca of sustainability as a field of study, the internat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781538135365 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1538135361 |
| Author: | Lisa Benton-Short |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Imprint: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 912g |
| Dimensions: | 249mm x 179mm x 21mm |
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This book provides a comprehensive view of sustainability. Its global perspective and examples help the reader realize how expansive our problems are but how powerful solutions can be.
Benton-Short’s review of the patterns and processes of sustainable development offers a comprehensive assessment of where we stand today as well as our prospects for a brighter future. Whether it’s food insecurity or fast fashion, the book’s emphasis on inequality and fairness is especially welcome and long overdue. Highly readable and authoritative, this is the right book at the right time.
–Geoffrey L. Buckley, Ohio UniversityLisa Benton-Short’s Sustainability and Sustainable Development: An Introduction is a most welcome addition to the literature–cleverly conceived and skillfully executed. Its unique structure devotes a chapter to each of the Millennium Development Goals. Students will benefit from the author’s careful framing of fundamental issues facing our planet. The rich empirical detail and incisive geographic analysis will help cultivate in students something beyond a mere awareness of global challenges. It is a pleasure to recommend this timely text. It deserves a wide readership.
–Charles Scruggs, Genesee Community CollegeOrganized around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this book introduces factors contributing to key global issues and considers solutions the world is, and should be, investing in to address these issues. Data and examples are given from places around the world, and the reality of circumstances are brought home through the vignettes at the beginning of each chapter. This current and accessible text will give students a new perspective on sustainability and sustainable development.
–Velvet Nelson, Sam Houston State UniversitySustainability and Sustainable Development is a much needed primer on the historical contexts and theoretical debates that inform the current global narratives and policy initiatives surrounding sustainability. Lisa Benton-Short’s approach to analyzing sustainable development through the lens of the United Nations’ SDGs offers students and faculty alike a tangible, accessible, and critical guide for examining the limitations and possibilities of achieving sustainable development.
–Jennifer Titanski-Hooper, Francis Marion UniversityThis book provides a comprehensive view of sustainability. Its global perspective and examples help the reader realize how expansive our problems are but how powerful solutions can be.
–Tara Scully, Director of the Sustainability Minor, George Washington UniversityAbout The Author
Lisa Benton-Short
Lisa Benton-Short is chair of the Department of Geography at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the GW Sustainability Collaborative.
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