Cohen Environmentally Sustainable Growth

A Pragmatic Approach
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55753-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

This book offers a positive vision of an environmentally sustainable future and lays out the steps ahead as we make the transition. Steven Cohen explores the causes of environmental degradation and examines what sustainability looks like in practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Defining and Understanding Environmental Sustainability
2. The Current State of Environmental Degradation
3. The Fundamental Causes of Environmental Degradation
4. A Strategy for Reducing Pollution and Growing a Renewable Resource-Based Economy
5. Building Public Sector Infrastructure to Support Environmental Sustainability
6. Changing the Politics and Communication of Environmental Sustainability
Conclusion: The Long Transition to Environmental Sustainability Is Already Underway
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Cohen is senior vice dean of the School of Professional Studies and professor of the practice of public affairs in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also the director of the Earth Institute’s Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management as well as two other master’s programs in environmental sustainability at Columbia University. He is the author of Sustainability Management (2014), Understanding Environmental Policy (second edition, 2014), and The Sustainable City (second edition, 2021), all published by Columbia University Press, among other works.