A new agenda for sustainability
This book explores the potential for new practices and fields for those involved in sustainability activity. It addresses a number of themes concening firstly, the provision of a "next generation perspective", which was a central, and still unresolved, notion of the original Brundtland definition, and secondly the provision of new milestones for policy and research that can expand the discussion on this second generation concept on sustainability.
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- Full title :A new agenda for sustainability / edited by Kurt Aagaard Nielsen [and others].
Summary
This book explores the potential for new practices and fields for those involved in sustainability activity. It addresses a number of themes concening firstly, the provision of a "next generation perspective", which was a central, and still unresolved, notion of the original Brundtland definition, and secondly the provision of new milestones for policy and research that can expand the discussion on this second generation concept on sustainability.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 303 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780754679769, 0754679764, 9780754699361, 0754699366
- oclc:ocn567223639
- LC Classification:HC79.E5
- Dewey Decimal:338.9/27
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Challenging the concept of sustainable design -- Sustainable rhythms : when society meets nature / Helga Hvid -- A record on modernity, rationality and sustainability / Bo Elling --- Sustainability as a tug of war between ecological optimisation and social conflict solution / Jesper Brandt -- Sustainability, biodiversity and the ethical aspects of the deliberate release of GMOs / Peder Agger and Erling Jelsøe -- pt. 2. Sustainability in relation to political and institutional actions and activities -- Sustainable transition of socio-technical systems in a governance perspective / Ole Erik Hansen, Brent Sondergå̊rd and Jens Stærdahl -- On a sustainable chemicals policy : the significance of risk assessment and REACH / Jette Rank, Kristian Syberg and Lars Carlsen -- Sustainability in agriculture and food production / Erling Jelsøe and Bente Kjærgård -- Sustainable development, capabilities and the missing case of mental health / Andrew Crabtree -- Economic analysis of sustainable development / Anders Chr: Hansen -- pt. 3. Sustainability in an everyday life perspective -- Local experimentation and deliberation for sustainable development : local agenda 21 governance / Jesper Ho…
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