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Exploring sustainable development - geographical perspectives
Edited by Martin Purvis and Alan Grainger
Earthscan
September 2004
Hardback 401 pages ISBN 9781844071074
£80.00
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Paperback 401 pp ISBN 9781853834721
£23.00
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Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the
academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention
for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital that there is a clear definition
of what it means, how it is applied on the ground and the influence it exerts upon people€s perceptions of change
in the physicial environment, economic activity and society.
Exploring Sustainable Development is a major new text which provides a multifaceted introduction to key areas
of study in this field, examining sustainability at the full range of spatial scales from the local to the global. Building
on existing theory it demonstrates the unique contributions that thinking geographically about space, place and
human-environment relationships can bring to the analysis of sustainable development. This book explores
different interpretations of sustainable development in both theory and practice, in developed and developing
countries, and in rural and urban areas. It pays particular attention to the local, national and international politics
of implementation, the future of climate and energy, the role of business, and different conceptions of agricultural
sustainability.
This wide-ranging text is ideal for undergraduates and postgraduates in geography, environmental science,
development studies, and related social and political sciences.
Contents
- Geography and sustainable development
- the role of spatial scale and spatial interactions in sustainable
development
- linking the local to the global - can sustainable development work in practice?
- forecasting
urban futures - a systems analytical perspective on the development of sustainable urban regions
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making cities more sustainable - people, plans and participation
- business and sustainable economic
development
- sustainable agriculture for the 21st century
- sustaining the flow - Japanese waterways
and new paradigms of development
- sustainable futures for the Artic North
- climate change, energy and
sustainable development
- sustainable development and international relations
- future perspectives -
developing sustainable development.
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