Sustainable values, sustainable change : a guide to environmental decision making /
"One of the most trafficked terms in contemporary life, sustainability has risen to prominence as a buzzword before the many parties laying claim to it have even agreed how to define it. But the term's political currency demands that we develop an understanding of this elusive concept. Nor...
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago ; London : |
Publication Dates: | 2015. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"One of the most trafficked terms in contemporary life, sustainability has risen to prominence as a buzzword before the many parties laying claim to it have even agreed how to define it. But the term's political currency demands that we develop an understanding of this elusive concept. Norton here offers an action-oriented, pragmatic response to the disconnect between public and academic discourse around sustainability, revealing that the path to sustainability cannot be guided by fixed, utopian objectives projected into the future. Sustainability will instead be achieved through experimentation, incremental learning, and adaptive management. Looking across scales to today's global problems, Norton urges us to learn to think like a planet"--Page four of cover. |
Carrier Form: | xx, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-313) and index. |
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9780226197456 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 022619745X (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780226197319 (cloth : alkaline paper) 022619731X (cloth : alkaline paper) |
Index Number: | GE40 |
CLC: | X22 |
Call Number: | X22/N882 |
Contents: | Responding to change -- The decision context -- A brief philosophy of adaptive ecosystem management -- Contesting sustainability : who will own the word? -- Introducing and grounding a procedural approach -- Heuristic proceduralism : a general method -- Tools of the adaptive trade -- Constructing sustainability : imagining through metaphors -- Adaptive collaborative management : empirical findings and case studies -- Addressing third-generation problems. |