Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development

List of contents

Part 1: History and Evolution of the Concept of Sustainable Development 1. Introduction: History and evolution of the concept Part 2: Institutional Dimensions of Sustainable Development 2. Does illegality enable or undermine the sustainability of the globalising economy? 3. Global Change, Islands and Sustainable Development: Islands of Sustainability or Analogues of the Challenge of Sustainable Development? 4. ‘Uncertainty’ in the professionalization of sustainable development - The case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5. Population Health, a Fundamental Marker of Sustainable Development 6. Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges of a critical pedagogy Part 3: Environmental Dimensions Of Sustainable Development 7. Biodiversity and SustainableDevelopment 8. Water and Sustainable Development 9. Sustainable Architecture10. Sustainable Design: Concepts, methods and practices11. Is managing ecosystem services necessary and sufficient to ensure sustainable development?12. Conservation, Sustainability and Economic GrowthPart 4: Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development13. Sustainable Development: Joining Sustainability and Environmental Justice14. Indigenous Perspectives: Non-Anthropocentric Sustainable Development and the Right to Self-Determination15. The Politics of Sustainable Consumption16. Advances in Sustainable Tourism Development17. Food and Sustainable DevelopmentPart 5: Economic Dimensions Of Sustainable Development 18. Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development: Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature19. Sustainable development and the economic crisis under austerity: the experience of the United Kingdom19. Indicators for Sustainable Development21. Sustainable Business: A Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility Policies and Practices22. Urban Transport and Sustainable Development23. Chinese Sustainability in Transition: Which direction to take? Part 6: Sustainable Development – Future Challenges24. Agroecology as post-development discourse and practice25. The social and political dimensions of sustainable development in climate change26. Sustainable Development or the Creeping Incubation of Disaster?27.Women's 'right to sustainable development': integrating religion and a rights-based approach 28. From Sustainable Development to Governance for Sustainability

Product details

• Authors: Michael (King''''s College London Redclift
• Assisted by: Michael Redclift (Editor), Delyse Springett (Editor), Springett Delyse (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2015
• EAN: 9780415838429
• ISBN: 978-0-415-83842-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Politics & government, Biodiversity, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Politics and government, Development Studies, Environmental science, engineering and technology