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Subject(s)

• Sustainability—History [Browse]
• Sustainability—Case studies [Browse]

Editor

• Caradonna, Jeremy L., 1979- [Browse]

Series

Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability is a far-reaching survey of the deep and contemporary history of sustainability. This innovative resource will help to define the history of sustainability as an identifiable field. It provides a unique resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars, and provides essential context for understanding the current state and future path of the sustainability movement.?The history of sustainability is an increasingly important domain within the discipline of history, which draws on an interdisciplinary set of fields, ranging from energy studies, transportation, and urbanism to environmental history, economics, and philosophy. Key sections in this handbook cover the historiography of sustainability, resilience and collapse in historical societies, the deep roots of sustainability (seventeenth century to nineteenth century), the recent history of sustainability (twentieth century to present), and core issues and key debates in sustainability. This handbook is an invaluable research and teaching tool for those interested in the history and development of sustainability and it should become an essential resource in the many sustainability studies programs that now exist in the world's universities."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Sustainability : a new historiography / Jeremy L. Caradonna
• What is sustainable? : some views from highlands Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
• Understanding sustainability through history : resources and complexity / Joseph A. Tainter
• The ancient Maya : sustainability and collapse? / B.L. Turner II
• Sustaining what? : scarcity, growth, and the natural order in the discourse on sustainability, 1650-1900 / Gareth Dale
• Eternal forest, sustainable use : the making of the term "Nachhaltig" in 17th and 18th-century Germany forestry / Ulrich Grober
• The Industrial Revolution : social costs and social change / Emma Griffin
• Islam and sustainability : the norms and the hindrances / Tarik Masud Quadir
• The us environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s : building frameworks of sustainability / Erik W. Johnson and Pierce Greenberg
• Sustainable development and the United Nations / Iris Borowy
• The growth paradigm : history, hegemony, and the contested making of economic growthmanship / Matthias Schmelzer
• A basis for systemic sustainability measurement : an update / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse
• Sustainability and the reframing of the world city / Stephen Zavestoski
• Sustainable transportation : from feet to wheels and machines and back to feet / Preston L. Schiller
• From hydrology to hydrosociality : historiography of waters in India / Jenia Mukherjee
• Sustainable architecture : a short history / Vandana Bawega
• Sustainability studies in higher education / Teresa Sabol Spezio
• Climate change and its histories / Hervé Le Treut and Claire Weill
• The problem of economic growth / Richard Heinberg
• From (strong) sustainability to degrowth : a philosophical and historical reconstruction / Barbara Muraca and Ralf Doring
• Sustainability beyond growth : toward an ethics of flourishing / John R. Ehrenfeld
• Business, sustainability, and the bottom of the pyramid / Ana Maria Peredo
• At the crossroads : sustainability and the twilight of the modern world / John A. Robinson and David Maggs
• Rethinking the history of agriculture with sustainability in mind / Jeremy L. Caradonna
• The gene revolution and the future of agriculture / Thierry Vrain.

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ISBN

• 0-367-85584-4
• 1-134-86648-8
• 1-134-86655-0

OCLC

1007231342

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