Introduction to Sustainability
Introduction to Sustainability
Editor/Author
Brinkmann, Robert
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$135.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$202.50
ISBN: 978-1-118-48714-3
Category: Science - Environmental sciences
Image Count:
138
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction to Sustainability is the first major textbook to review major themes in the cutting-edge field of sustainability.The text includes material on the development of the field of sustainability; environmental sustainability issues like water, food, and energy; social sustainability themes like environmental justice and transportation; and economic sustainability topics like green businesses and economic development.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
- Chapter 1: Roots of the modern sustainability movement
- Meaning of sustainability
- Nineteenth century environmentalism
- Pinchot, Roosevelt, and Muir
- Aldo Leopold and the land ethic
- Better living through chemistry, the Great Smog of 1952, and Rachel Carson
- Environmental activism of the 1960s and 1970s and the development of environmental policy
- The growth of environmental laws in the 1960s and 1970s
- The first Earth Day
- International concerns
- Ozone and the world comes together
- Globalization and the Brundtland Report
- Deep ecology
- Environmental justice
- Measuring sustainability
- The road ahead
- Organization
- Chapter 2: Understanding natural systems
- The Earth, its layers, and the rock cycle
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Organisms and ecosystems
- Understanding the Anthropocene
- Chapter 3: Measuring sustainability
- The United Nations Millennium Goals
- National sustainability planning
- Regional sustainability planning
- Local sustainability measurement
- Specific community plans
- Small towns and sustainability
- Business sustainability
- Personal sustainability
- Chapter 4: Energy
- World energy production and consumption
- Traditional or “dirty” energy resources
- Green energy
- Nuclear energy
- Other innovations
- Living off the grid
- Chapter 5: Global climate change and greenhouse gas management
- The end of nature?
- The science of global climate change
- Sinks of carbon
- The IPCC and evidence for climate change, and the future of our planet
- Ocean acidification
- Phenological changes
- Conducting greenhouse gas inventories
- Greenhouse gas equivalents used in greenhouse gas accounting
- Greenhouse gas emission scopes
- Computing greenhouse gas credits
- Climate action plans
- Religion and climate change
- Art, culture, and climate change
- Chapter 6: Water
- Sources of water
- Consumption trends
- Sources of water pollution
- Water management and conservation
- Water quality
- Understanding drainage basins
- Lakes
- Seas
- Oceans
- Chapter 7: Food and agriculture
- Development of modern agriculture
- World agricultural statistics
- Food deserts and obesity
- Reactions to the high-tech agricultural movement
- Farm to table
- Community sponsored agriculture
- Community gardens
- Farmers markets
- Beekeeping
- The urban chicken movement
- Guerilla gardening, freegans, and other radical approaches to food
- Chapter 8: Green building
- LEED rating systems
- Site selection
- Water use
- Energy and atmospheric health
- Materials and resources
- Indoor environmental quality
- Innovation
- Regional priorities
- Expansion of green building technology
- Other green building rating systems
- Green building policy
- Critiques of green building
- The greenest building and historic preservation
- Small house movement
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Transportation
- Transportation options
- Roads
- Mass transit
- The future
- Chapter 10: Pollution and waste
- Pollution
- Understanding pollution distribution
- The US approach to pollution
- Sewage treatment
- Garbage and recycling
- Chapter 11: Environmental justice
- Social justice
- Civil rights and the modern environmental movement in the United States
- Lead pollution and the growth of the urban environmental justice movement
- Environmental racism in the United States
- Brownfields, community re-development, and environmental justice
- US EPA and environmental justice
- Native Americans and environmental justice
- Exporting environmental problems
- Environmental justice around the world
- Environmental justice in a Globalized World
- Chapter 12: Sustainability planning and governance
- Local governments and their structure
- The role of citizens and stakeholders in local government
- Community stakeholders
- Boundaries and types of local governments
- Leadership
- Efforts to aid local governments on sustainability issues
- Scale and local governments
- Green regional development
- Sustainable development
- Globalization
- War and sustainability
- Further reading
- Chapter 13: Sustainability, economics, and the global commons
- The global commons
- Economic processes that put the Earth out of balance
- Social and economic theories
- Destruction regardless of theory
- Environmental economics: externalities
- Measuring the economy
- Green jobs
- Cost–benefit analysis and its application in environmental economics
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental ethics
- Chapter 14: Corporate and organizational sustainability management
- Cognitive dissonance
- Why are businesses concerned with sustainability?
- Total quality management and sustainability
- People, planet, and profits
- Ray Anderson, the father of the green corporation and the growth of green corporate environmentalism
- Greenwashing in the corporate world
- Green consumers
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Sustainability reporting in the S & P 500
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- Sustainability reporting
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO): ISO 14000 and ISO 26000
- Case studies of sustainability at the corporate level
- Can businesses with unsustainable products be sustainable?
- Chapter 15: Sustainability at universities, colleges, and schools
- Curriculum at colleges and universities
- External benchmarking
- Internal initiatives
- Student and faculty activism