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 delivers 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 an essential resource for the many sustainability studies programs that now exist in the world's universities.
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This book is a comprehensive survey of the emerging field that studies the history of sustainability. It provides a unique resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars engaged in the field by providing comprehensive coverage of the state of the art in the field.
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A. Introduction1. Introduction to the Volume Jeremy L. CaradonnaB. Historiography of Sustainability2. Sustainability: A New Historiography Jeremy L. CaradonnaC. Sustainability, Resilience, and Collapse in Historical Societies3. What is Sustainable? Some Views from Highlands Papua New Guinea Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart4. Understanding Sustainability Through History: Resources and Complexity Joseph A. Tainter5. The Ancient Maya: Sustainability and Collapse? B. L. Turner IID. The Roots of Sustainability6. Sustaining What? Scarcity, Growth, and the Natural Order in the Discourse on Sustainability, 1650-1900 Gareth Dale7. Eternal Forest, Sustainable Use: The Making of the Term "Nachhaltig" in 17th and 18th-Century Germany Forestry Ulrich Grober8. The Industrial Revolution: Social Costs and Social Change Emma Griffin9. Islam and Sustainability: The Norms and the Hindrances Tarik Masud QuadirE. The Recent History of Sustainability10. The US Environmental Movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Building Frameworks of Sustainability Erik W. Johnson and Pierce Greenberg11. Sustainable Development and the United Nations Iris Borowy12. The Growth Paradigm: History, Hegemony, and the Contested Making of Economic Growthmanship Matthias Schmelzer13. A Basis for Systemic Sustainability Measurement: An Update Simon Bell and Stephen Morse14. Sustainability and the Reframing of the World City Stephen Zavestoski15. Sustainable Transportation: From Feet to Wheels and Machines and Back to Feet Preston L. Schiller16. From Hydrology to Hydrosociality: Historiography of Waters in India Jenia Mukherjee17. Sustainable Architecture: A Short History Vandana Baweja 18. Sustainability Studies in Higher Education Teresa Sabol SpezioF. Core Issues and Key Debates on Sustainability 19. Climate Change and Its Histories Hervé Le Treut and Claire Weill20. The Problem of Economic Growth Richard Heinberg21. From (Strong) Sustainability to Degrowth: A Philosophical and Historical Reconstruction Barbara Muraca and Ralf Döring22. Sustainability Beyond Growth: Toward an Ethics of Flourishing John R. Ehrenfeld23. Business, Sustainability, and the Bottom of the Pyramid Ana Maria Peredo24. At the Crossroads: Sustainability and the Twilight of the Modern World John A. Robinson and David Maggs25. Rethinking the History of Agriculture with Sustainability in Mind Jeremy L. Caradonna26. The Gene Revolution and the Future of Agriculture Thierry Vrain
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ISBN
9781138685796
Publisert
2017-11-16
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Routledge
Vekt
907 gr
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246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
456

Biographical note

Jeremy L. Caradonna has a PhD in History and is Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.