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ISBN-13:
9780199390434

Copyright Year:
2019

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Sustainable Solutions

Richard A. Niesenbaum

This book helps students make interdisciplinary connections and see how individual and institutional behaviors, novel collaborations, innovation and entrepreneurship, new technologies, and policy decisions can be used to achieve sustainable solutions.

Sustainable Solutions offers a problem-solving and solutions-based approach to teaching sustainability. The text encourages students to critically examine specific examples of those solutions and allows them to identify both the barriers and the paths to successful implementation.

1. The Problems We Must Solve
2. Developing Sustainable Solutions
3. The Air We Breathe
4. Water: Using our Planet to Quench our Thirst
5. Food & Agriculture: Using our Planet to Sustain Ourselves
6. Energy: From Fossil Fuels to a Sustainable Future
7. Forest and Mineral Resources: Materials to Make Stuff
8. Solving our Garbage Problem
9. Sustainability and the Most Local Level - The Individual
10. Organizations, Institutions, & Sustainability
11. Sustainable Communities, Cities, and Regions
12. Sustainable Development and Global Sustainability
Appendix 1 Abbreviations

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Richard A. Niesenbaum is professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Studies at Muhlenberg College.

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Special Features

Provides a problem-solving and solutions-based approach to teaching sustainability.
Focus on natural resources, technologies, and social structures.
Interdisciplinary connections highlight how concepts such as individual and institutional behaviours, novel collaborations, innovation and entrepreneurship, new technologies, and policy decision can be used to achieve sustainable solutions.