The year 2015 will be a landmark year for international climate change negotiations. Governments have agreed to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in …
This title provides a structure and framework for analysing sustainable development and the role of materials in it. The aim is to introduce ways of exploring sustainable development to readers in a way that avoids simplistic interpretations and approaches complexity in a system…
Sustainable Futures is a case study approach to development, and will provide teachers and young scientists with informative teaching and learning materials in Science projects. Aimed at contemporary sustainable development issues in developing countries, this publication contai…
"The result of extraordinary collaboration between ten scientists from around the world, Sustainable Futures offers a unique and fascinating approach to sustainable development issues in developing countries. It focuses on educating the next generation of young people about envi…
Proven strategies for a low-carbon, steady-state economy.
Navigating transition from growth to resilience is a formidable challenge, but together we can build a robust, resilient, low-carbon economy. This title advances a mixture of analysis and innovation that provoke us to SEE (social, ecological, and economic) Change as desirable an…
"We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place?compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social, ecological, economic) change as a…
Navigating transition from growth to resilience is a formidable challenge, but together we can build a robust, resilient, low-carbon economy. This title advances a mixture of analysis and innovation that provoke us to SEE (social, ecological, and economic) Change as desirable an…
"We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, Ecological, Economic) Change as …
Proven strategies for a low-carbon, steady-state economy.
