Environment and sustainability in a globalizing world / edited by Andrea J. Nightingale - viii, 271 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm. - Foundations in Global Studies series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview / Andrea J. Nightingale, Tom Böhler, and Ben Campbell -- Background and history of sustainability / Andrea J. Nightingale, Tom Böhler, Ben Campbell, and Linus Karlsson -- Narratives of sustainability : key concepts and issues / Andrea J. Nightingale, Linus Karlsson, Tom Böhler, and Ben Campbell -- Enacting sustainability / Andrea J. Nightingale, Tom Böhler, and Ben Campbell -- Issues of scale in producing sustainability / Andrea J. Nightingale and Linus Karlsson -- The range of environmental concerns / Andrea J. Nightingale and Linus Karlsson, Laura Saxer, and Ben Campbell -- Introduction to the case studies / Andrea J. Nightingale and Tom Böhler -- Alternative food movements and transition towns in the United Kingdom / Ben Campbell -- Community forestry and sustainability in Nepal / Dinesh Paudel -- Sustainable mining and the North / Nancy Langston -- Governing genetically modified crops and agricultural sustainability / Phil Macnaghten -- Rethinking sustainable community through permaculture initiatives in Zimbabwe / Pamela Richardson Ngwenya -- The entanglements of oil extraction and sustainability in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Angus Lyall and Gabriela Valdivia -- Sustainability and gender equality : exploring the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development / Sarah Bradshaw -- Sustaining what and by what means? : the importance of local social relations in the Sahel / Matthew D. Turner.

978-0-7656-4644-6 978-1-315-71471-4 978-0-7656-4643-9

2019004014


Sostenibilidad--Estudio de casos
Globalización--Aspectos ambientales
Desarrollo sostenible--Estudio de casos

338.927 / En89