Sustainability principles and practice

This new and expanded edition builds upon the first edition's accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping the student with both conceptual understanding and technical skills for the workplace. Each chapter explores one aspect of the field, first introducing concepts and presenting issues, then supplying tools for working toward solutions. Techniques for management and measurement as well as case studies from around the world are provided. The second edition includes a complete update of the text, with increased coverage of major topics including the Anthropocene; complexity; resilience; environmental ethics; governance; the IPCC's latest findings on climate change; Sustainable Development Goals; and new thinking on native species and novel ecosystems. Chapters include further reading and discussion questions. The book is supported by a companion website with links, detailed reading lists, glossary, and additional case studies, together with projects, research problems, and group activities, all of which focus on real-world problem solving of sustainability issues.

Earlier edition: 2014.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Context -- 1. What Is Sustainability? -- What Is Sustainability? -- Sustainability and Resilience -- Systems Thinking -- Living in the Anthropocene -- 2.A Brief History of Sustainability -- Recent History: The Last 200 Years -- Early Conservation -- Transformation from Conservation to Ecology -- The Beginnings of the Environmental Movement -- US Legislation in the 1970s -- Environmental Justice -- Environmental Ethics -- Expanding to a Global Scale -- Modern Trends -- Into the Anthropocene -- 3. The Biosphere -- Why Study Living Systems? -- Energy and Matter -- The Four Spheres -- The Biosphere -- What Is Life? -- Earth System Science -- 4. The Human Sphere -- Human Impact -- Economics -- Failing States -- Governance -- The Commons -- pt. II Issues and Solutions -- 5. Climate -- Is Earth Warming? -- How Temperature Records Are Compiled -- The Long View: Climates through Time -- Modern Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases -- The Human Factor.

Note continued: Projecting into the Future -- United Nations Convention on Climate Change -- Climate Stabilization -- Climate Action Plans -- Strategies for Reducing Emissions -- Offsets -- Emissions Trad…