Fundamentals of Sustainable Development
Paperback Engels 2025 4e druk 9781032504650Samenvatting
This completely revised fourth edition of Fundamentals of Sustainable Development provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to sustainable development for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the natural and social sciences, and beyond. It is designed to easily align with structured modules to enable students to work through topics one by one.
Building on the previous edition’s user-friendly and comprehensive overview, this edition offers a macro and micro perspective on the challenges of sustainable, holistic development, looking at the impacts on global society in addition to people, planet and profit. It discusses in detail the benefits and limitations of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, linking these to new case studies throughout to provide a broad, international lens and highlighting regionally specific environmental issues, ecological approaches, indigenous perspectives and successful development strategies. The increasing risks of zoonoses and pandemics and their impact on sustainable development are discussed, as human activities within nature rise as a result of climate change. Timely topics on sustainable business are introduced across the book, including carbon footprints, ecolabels, greenwashing, measuring and reporting, degrowth, and personal and professional action points. The book also taps into timely philosophical discussions relating to the Anthropocene, such as climate anxiety, emotional connection to nature and more-than-human debates.
For instructors and students, new and revised supplemental resources can be accessed via the book’s website, including PowerPoints, lab-based exercises such as spreadsheet modelling, debate assignments and research tasks. This is the must-have resource for students and lecturers in all disciplines who have an interest in the sustainability of our planet, our human society and global economy.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
PART 1 Sustainable development, the voyage of discovery of the twenty first century
1 The adventure: New paradigms
1.1 Part 1: Learning to think differently
1.2 Part 2: Zooming out to the big picture
1.3 Part 3: Zooming in on the three Ps
1.4 Part 4: Zooming out to the Anthropocene
2 The complexity: People, planet and profit
2.1 Everything is interconnected
2.2 Two dimensions: Place and time
2.3 Complexity
2.4 The Tragedy of the Commons
3 The urgency: Climate change has started
3.1 The problem
3.2 Current and foreseeable consequences
3.3 Tipping points: Incalculable consequences
3.4 SDG 13: Climate action
PART 2 Zooming out to global society
4 Now, soon and later: Thinking from visions of the future
4.1 Growth models
4.2 Scenarios
4.3 Dreams and ideals
4.4 Responsibility
5 Here, there and far away: Global entanglement
5.1 The origins of today’s world
5.2 Everything gets bigger
5.3 The shrinking human
5.4 Responsibility
6 Agenda 2030: Global goals
6.1 The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals
6.2 The SDGs: Reliability and validity
6.3 SDG 17: Sincere commitment
6.4 The value of the SDGs
7 Agenda 2100: Global transition
7.1 Improvements, innovations, transitions
7.2 Mitigation: The energy transition in Europe
7.3 Adaptation: Floating cities
7.4 Transition management
PART 3 Zooming in on Planet, Profit, People
8 Planet: Living with nature
8.1 The Sixth Extinction
8.2 SDG 15: The Nature Restoration Agenda
8.3 SDG 2: Sustainable agriculture and food
8.4 SDG 14: Water, fisheries and aquaculture
9 Profit: Sustainable business
9.1 SDG 9: Circular economy, true prices
9.2 SDG 12: Value, profit
9.3 SDG 8: Economic growth, dematerialisation
9.4 SDG 12: ESG, Corporate Social Responsibility
10 People: A dignified life
10.1 SDG 5 and 11: Emancipation, empowerment, resilience
10.2 SDG 1–7: Multidimensional poverty
10.3 SDG 10: Inequality
10.4 SDG 17: The social contract
PART 4 Professional and personal action perspectives
11 Thinking differently: Who owns the Earth?
11.1 The Anthropocene
11.2 Four Spheres: Words, narratives, policies, effects
11.3 Science, ethics and identity
11.4 SDG 16: Peace
12 You, Human
12.1 The dream: Intrinsic Sustainability Goals (ISGS)
12.2 SDG 4: The learning society
12.3 RESFIA+D: The sustainably competent professional
12.4 SDG 5: Self actualisation. The Pledge
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