Foundations of Environmental Sustainability
The Coevolution of Science and Policy
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- Edition number and title Chief of the African Environment Division and the World Bank
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 June 2008
- ISBN 9780195309454
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 155x239x27 mm
- Weight 785 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 line illustrations 0
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Long description:
This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "environment" became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental destruction taking place around the world and of the specter of climate change. The devastation of New Orleans by hurricane Katrina illustrates the potential for disaster when climate change is combined with the mismanaged environmental policy. How did we get tot his point? What has been done and what can be done to avoid future environmental disasters? Thirty-two contributing chapter authors (among them, one of the principal drafters of the National Environmental Policy Act, Chief of the African Environment Division and the World Bank, Vice President of the Center for Conservation Innovation at the World Wildlife Fund, President of the Zoological Society of London, former President of the Ecological Society of America) use their unique, authoritative perspective to review the evolution of environmental science and policy in the past half century.
Each author describes the evolution of environmental science and policy in the past half century and consider the challenges of the future. Although the authors of this book come from various fields, they have followed paths that have generally converged on the concept of sustainability. This book attempts to define what sustainability is, how we can achieve it, and what the prospects for sustainability in the future are.
Table of Contents:
The Environmental Movement in the United States
International Environmental Policy: Some Recollections and Reflections
The Global 2000 Report and Its Aftermath
Sustainable Conservation: Can It Be Done?
Conservation of Sensitve Biodiversity Areas
Protected Areas: Science, Policy and Management to Meet the Challenges of Global Change in the 21st century
Ecological and Intellectual Baselines: Saving Lions, Tigers and Rhinos in Asia
Observations on Trends and Issues in Global Conservation
Half Century of American Range Ecology and Management: A Retrospective,
Policy Failures in African Rangeland Development
The Role of Science and Scientists in Changing Forest Service Management Relative to Sustainability
Sustainable Use of Marine Living Resources: Notion or Myth?
Marine Mammal Conservation
Marine Wildlife Policy: Underlying Ideologies
Overcoming Barriers to Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development, Leif E. Christoffersen
The Global Challenge of Sustainable Development
Biodiversity Conservation in the Real World: Incentives Disincentives and Disconnects
Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century
Conservation and Development: The Nam Theun 2 Dam Project in Laos
A Biocultural Basis for an Ethic toward the Natural Environment
International Environmental Legal Instruments
The Evolution of Sustainability in Forest Management Policy
The Future of Ecology and the Ecology of the Future
A New Environmentalism: Conservation and the Core of Governmental Purpose
Climate Change and Prospects for Sustainability
