Sustainability: a history

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The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for ""sustainable foods"" that were produced from ""sustainable agriculture""; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout ""sustainable development"" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a ""sustainable lifestyle."" Seeming to have come out of nowhere to dominate the discussion-from permaculture to renewable energ…

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Full title :Sustainability : a history / Jeremy L. Caradonna.

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780199372416, 0199372411, 1306907497, 9781306907491
oclc:ocn882915192
LC Classification:GE195
Dewey Decimal:338.9/2709

Loath this growth: sources of sustainability in the early modern world -- The industrial revolution and its discontents -- Eco-warriors: the environmental movement and the growth of ecological wisdom, 1960s-1970s -- Eco-nomics -- From concept to movement -- Sustainability today: 2000-present -- The future: 10 challenges for sustainability.

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