Foundations of environmental sustainability : the coevolution of science and policy

Foundations of environmental sustainability : the coevolution of science and policy / edited by Larry L. Rockwood, Ronald E. Stewart, Thomas Dietz.

The contributors to this book review and analyze the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the 'environment' became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace. The aim is to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rockwood, Larry L., 1943-, Stewart, Ronald E. (Ronald Eugene), 1943-, Dietz, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Environmental policy > United States.
Environmental policy > Economic aspects > United States.
Environmental sciences > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmental policy
Environmental policy > Economic aspects
Environmental sciences
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The quest for environmental sustainability : the coevolution of science, public awareness, and policy / Lee M. Talbot
  • The environmental movement in the United States / Russell W. Peterson
  • International environmental policy : some recollections and reflections / Russell E. Train
  • The Global 2000 report and its aftermath / James Gustave Speth
  • Sustainable conservation : can it be done? / Gene E. Likens
  • Conservation of sensitive biodiversity areas / Robert Goodland
  • Protected areas : science, policy and management to meet the challenges of global change in the twenty-first century / Kenton R. Miller and Charles Victor Barber
  • Ecological and intellectual baselines : saving lions, tigers, and rhinos in Asia / John Seidensticker
  • Observations on trends and issues in global conservation / James G. Teer
  • Half century of American range ecology and management : a retrospective / Frederic H. Wagner
  • Policy failures in African rangeland development / Walter J. Lusigi
  • The role of science and scientists in changing forest service management relative to sustainability / Jack Ward Thomas & James A. Burchfield
  • Sustainable use of marine living resources : notion or myth? / Sidney J. Holt
  • Marine mammal conservation / John R. Twiss Jr., Robert J. Hofman, & John E. Reynolds
  • Marine wildlife policy : underlying ideologies / Michael L. Weber
  • Overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable development / Leif E. Christoffersen
  • The global challenge of sustainable development / Mohamed T. El-Ashry
  • Biodiversity conservation in the real world : incentives, disincentives, and disconnects / Agnes Kiss
  • Resource wars / Jason Clay
  • Conservation and development : the Nam Theun 2 Dam Project in Laos / Thayer Scudder
  • A biocultural basis for an ethic toward the natural environment / Stephen R. Kellert
  • Evolving earth's environmental law : perspectives on a work in progress / Nicholas A. Robinson
  • The evolution of sustainability in forest management policy / V. Alaric Sample
  • The future of ecology and the ecology of the future / Daniel B. Botkin
  • A new environmentalism : conservation and the core of governmental purpose / George M. Woodwell
  • Climate change and prospects for sustainability / Thomas E. Lovejoy.

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