Environment, Development, and Sustainability

Perspectives and Cases from Around the World
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956064-6
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

As the human population continues to place increasing demands on the planet we inhabit we face the biggest challenge of our time: how can we exploit the natural resources that we need - whether it be for water, food, or energy - in a way that preserves the environment, is equitable and doesn't compromise the long-term future of the planet and its biodiversity?

Environment, Development, and Sustainability represents an examination of three integrated issues that form the main ongoing challenge of this century.

Featuring a range of perspectives and case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the book reflects the multiple ways in which environment, development and sustainability are intertwined everywhere - in rich and poor countries, and those in between.

Contributions from both practitioners and academics, bringing experiences as technologists, engineers, natural scientists and social scientists, expand further the many perspectives on the challenge. The book celebrates this diversity, using it positively as a resource for a more holistic learning approach to environment, development and sustainability.

Environment, Development, and Sustainability is written as a student textbook where individual chapters can be stand-alone, or where, helped by a linking narrative, the book can be read as a whole. Its accessible style, however, makes it suitable for a broader audience, including practitioners, activists and citizens who simply wish to know more.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Gordon

Furniss, Pam

Furniss, Pamela

Kimbowa, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Section A Introduction

- 1: Making the connections between environment, development, and sustainability

- Section B Learning from the local

- 2: The challenge for environment, development and sustainability in China.

- 3: Rural development and environment in Uganda

- 4: Traditional and modern (or improved) rural water supplies: stories from Ethiopia and Niger

- 5: The souvenirs of communism: missed opportunities for sustainable development innovations in the enlarged European Union?

- 6: Sustainable transport systems: learning from Cuba

- 7: At the coal face in Australia: the youth climate movement

- 8: Social dynamics of the US environmental challenge

- 9: Looking beyond the visible: contesting environmental agendas for Mumbai's slums

- Section C Major themes in environment, development and sustainability

- 10: Climate Change: causes and consequences

- 11: Can ecosystems be managed sustainably? Biodiversity and tropical forests

- 12: Conservation and development in Scotland and Uganda

- 13: Managing water for sustainable development across international boundaries: the Rhine river basin

- 14: Municipal waste management and the environmental health challenge: a tale of two cities

- 15: Environment, inequality, and the internal contradictions of globalization

- 16: Environmental ethics and development

- Section D Action for environment, development and sustainability

- 17: Local governance and sustainable development in Wales: making a difference?

- 18: Cities and climate change: leading to a low carbon London

- 19: Exploring participation in science, technology and innovation: tissue-culture bananas in Kenya

- 20: Designing for sustainability

- 21: Corporate responsibility in practice: building an eco-city from scratch

- 22: Innovative partnerships for sustainable development in Harare, Zimbabwe

- 23: Community-led sustainable development: the champion approach

- 24: Why involve the public? Case studies of public involvement in environmental initiatives in South Africa

- 25: Tools and techniques for environmental decision making

- Section E Conclusion

- 26: Scientific, social science and technological approaches to understanding environmental change

- 27: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Technology and Development at the Open University, where he is Director of the inter-faculty Environment, Development and International Studies Programme. His research interests are in collective knowledge construction and the role of scientists, technologists, and other professional agents in development practice. He has undertaken research in Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Algeria. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Pamela Furniss is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Systems at the Open University. She has many years experience of writing teaching materials for the university on a wide range of environmental subjects, principally in the areas of water resource management. She was Course Team Chair for the production of Environmental decision making: a systems approach (T863).

Richard Kimbowa works for Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development (UCSD), a local membership advocacy NGO. He is an alumnus of the OU's M.Sc Development Mangement Programme (2003-2006). He is professionally interested in civil society as mechanisms and institutions to secure sustainable development.