The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future write by Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed? In this book, the Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy, an expert advisory board to the Dutch Minister of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, shows possible ways in which society can move towards a sustainable future. The book goes in search of a new social order, an order in which sustainability is guaranteed. This search holds four main elements: signs of hope: which positive initiatives and developments exist which will lead to a sustainable future? transformations: which transformations are needed to reach a sustainable future? philosophical and methodological reflections: can one predict the future? institutions: what are the necessary changes in the basic institutions of society to reach a sustainable future? The committee has invited well-known experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to check the existing social order from a point of sustainability and to give recommendations for a sustainable future. The central conclusion is that we are in need of an evolving green strategy aimed at sustainability. The contours of this strategy are described and a large set of recommendations to reach a sustainable future are given. As the committee states: `There is no certainty and no statistical probability for a sustainable future, but there is at least a chance.'
A Better Planet
A Better Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Better Planet write by Daniel C. Esty. This book was released on 2019-10-22. A Better Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges such as the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and air pollution. But in the United States, partisan divides, regional disputes, and deep disagreements over core principles have made it nearly impossible to chart a course toward a sustainable future. This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book’s forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. The book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.
Pathways to Our Sustainable Future
Pathways to Our Sustainable Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pathways to Our Sustainable Future write by Patricia DeMarco. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Pathways to Our Sustainable Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pittsburgh has a rich history of social consciousness in calls for justice and equity. Today, the movement for more sustainable practices is rising in Pittsburgh. Against a backdrop of Marcellus shale gas development, initiatives emerge for a sustainable and resilient response to the climate change and pollution challenges of the twenty-first century. People, institutions, communities, and corporations in Pittsburgh are leading the way to a more sustainable future. Examining the experience of a single city, with vast social and political complexities and a long industrial history, allows a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities inherent in adapting to change throughout the world. The case studies in this book respond to ethical challenges and give specific examples of successful ways forward. Choices include transforming the energy system, restoring infertile ground, and preventing pollution through green chemistry. Inspired by the pioneering voice of Rachel Carson, this is a book about empowerment and hope.
Greening Environmental Policy
Greening Environmental Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greening Environmental Policy write by NA NA. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Greening Environmental Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development
Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development write by Rosi Braidotti. This book was released on 1994. Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempt to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant developmental model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift -- emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women."--Publisher's description.
