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Author: Rogers,L. C. G.

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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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Main Authors: Norton, Bryan G
Published: University of Chicago Press,
Publisher Address: Chicago ; London :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Sustainability > Philosophy
Sustainable development > Philosophy
Environmental policy > Philosophy
Sustainable development > Decision making
Summary: "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 experimenta
Carrier Form: xx, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-313) and index.
ISBN: 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.

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