Hot Topics: Sustainability: Social Aspects

"provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. Entries are diverse, with articles covering fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and placer mineral deposits. top resources are covered, as well as major events, milestone historical events and government laws."--Publisher.

"The book discusses the development of the emerging concept of biocultural rights, which are defined as a basket of group rights. These rights are aimed at protecting the stewardship role that certain indigenous peoples and local communities have towards environment. This work provides an overview of the current ethical debate on different approaches towards the conservation of the environment and the problematic definitions of indigenous peoples and local communities."

"The volatility and uncertainty caused by digitalization, globalization, and climate change weave a common backdrop through each chapter. Using case studies drawn from Finland and the US, chapter authors explore various aspects of learning and education system design through the lenses of sustainability and human well-being to evaluate how our understanding and practice of education must transform. Using their scholarly research and experience as practitioners, the authors propose new approaches to preparing learners for a new frontier of the human experience fraught with risks but full of opportunity."

"Description: Theoretical approaches to sustainable entrepreneurship research. Environmental dystopia versus sustainable development utopia : roles of businesses, consumers, institutions, and technologies / Entrepreneurial journey of Geely's founder : from institutional voids to opportunity discovery / Contradictory stakeholder expectations for sustainability reporting - a social contract theory approach / Climate change. Political economy of climate change and sustainable entrepreneurship / Breaking traditions : how entrepreneurs create communities to address climate change / Water rights in California : competition and coopetition in a dynamic environment / Social innovation processes. Social entrepreneurs and field level change : an institutional process model of social entrepreneurship / "Make love, not war?" - a process based approach to social innovation / Social innovation : combining profits and progress / Ethics of social innovation. Bioethical reasoning and the propensity of millennials to adopt sustainable development behaviors / Sustainable consumption practice : the effect of eco-friendly packaging on buying behavior based on generations "

"This book provides a broad-ranging introduction to the concept and practice of sustainability today. It addresses the history, scope, and contested meanings of sustainability as an ethical ideal, an ascendant ideology, and a common sense approach to living in an ever more crowded world of increasingly scarce resources. Key topics covered include environmental health and ecological resilience, the promise and unintended consequences of technology, political and legal challenges, economic limits and opportunities, and cultural change. Unlike most other approaches to this crucial topic, the author argues that sustainability requires innovation and adaptation as much as the conservation of resources"

Includes bibliographical references and index.--Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation's role as a central driver of global capitalism. Features innovative new research on case studies on the connections between capitalism and conservation drawn from all over the world Examines some of our most popular leisure pursuits and consumption habits to uncover the ways they drive and deepen global capitalism Reveals the increase in intensity and variety of forms of capitalist conservation throughout the world

"While sustainability draws upon ideas of social justice, ecological economics, and environmental conservation, it is more than the sum of its parts. Caradonna's book broadens our understanding of what the term means, showing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that dominates lifestyle choices, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-245) and index.--Encouraging students to engage in the challenges and complexity of sustainability, this text considers not only the theories underlying sustainability, but more importantly how theories are translated into practice and the difficulties of achieving this in the world in which we live. This pragmatic focus gives students a greater understanding of the practice of sustainability and highlights the challenges involved. Models and theories are illustrated throughout with real world examples to help students move away from the abstract and connect with genuine issues. The text begins by focusing on sustainable production and consumption and how they are related. The role of tools such as modelling and sustainability indicators are explored, and extended into the fields of stakeholder participation, livelihoods and evidence-based policy. The final chapter explores the interconnections between apparently disparate subjects and the importance of taking an interdisciplinary perspective

The absence of strong spiritual and ethical dimensions in twentieth-century development helped to produce one of the most violent, environmentally impoverished, and economically unequal centuries in human history. Ethical and spiritual contributions in the twenty-first century are needed to rectify these pitfalls. Religions can help societies to wrestle with the bedrock question of societal advancement: What does it mean to be a developed society? In doing so, religious traditions help to create the new worldviews needed to build sustainable civilizations in the new century. Fortunately, many religious traditions are awakening to their vital role. Inspiring Progress identifies the value that religions add to the debate about societal advancement, and it encourages the world's religious traditions to step up their involvement in shaping the development path of the human family in the twenty-first century.