Edited by Dr. Gordon Wilson, Pam Furniss and Richard Kimbowa
As the human population continues to grow and places increasing demands on the planet we inhabit we face the biggest challenge of our time: how can we exploit the natural resources available to us - be it for water, food, or energy - in a way that preserves the environment, and doesn't compromise
its long-term future - and that of our species.
Environment, Development and Sustainability represents an examination of environment, development and sustainability as three integrated issues that form the main ongoing challenge of this century.
Looking beyond developing
countries, this book presents examples from around the globe, reflecting the way that development is not a finished state: North America, the EU countries and Australasia continue to develop (and conversely have pockets of awful deprivation), and environment, development and sustainability are as
much intertwined in these regions as elsewhere in the world.
With contributions from technologists, engineers, natural scientists and social scientists Environment, Development and Sustainability presents multiple perspectives on the issue of sustainable development. It celebrates the
diversity of its contributors and uses positively this diversity as a resource for a more holistic approach to environment, development and sustainability.
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Section A: Introduction
1. Making the connections between environment, development, and sustainability
Section B: Learning from the local
2. The challenge for environment, development and sustainability in China.
3. Rural development and environment in Uganda
4.
Traditional and modern (or improved) rural water supplies: stories from Ethiopia and Niger
5. The souvenirs of communism: missed opportunities for sustainable development innovations in the enlarged European Union?
6. Sustainable transport systems: learning from Cuba
7. At the coal face
in Australia: the youth climate movement
8. Social dynamics of the US environmental challenge
9. Looking beyond the visible: contesting environmental agendas for Mumbai's slums
Section C: Major themes in environment, development and sustainability
10. Climate Change: causes
and consequences
11. Can ecosystems be managed sustainably? Biodiversity and tropical forests
12. Managing conservation and development in Scotland and Uganda
13. Managing water for sustainable development across international boundaries: the Rhine river basin
14. Municipal waste
management and the environmental health challenge: a tale of two cities
15. Environment, inequality, and the internal contradictions of globalization
16. Environmental ethics and development
Section D: Action for environment, development and sustainability
17. Local governance
and sustainable development in Wales: making a difference?
18. Cities and climate change: leading to a low carbon London
19. Exploring participation in science, technology and innovation: tissue-culture bananas in Kenya
20. Designing for sustainability
21. Corporate responsibility in
practice: building an eco-city from scratch
22. Innovative partnerships for sustainable development in Harare, Zimbabwe
23. Community-led sustainable development: the champion approach
24. Why involve the public? Case studies of public involvement in environmental initiatives in South
Africa
25. Tools and techniques for environmental decision making
Section E: Conclusion
26. Scientific, social science and technological approaches to understanding environmental change
27. Conclusion
Gordon Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Technology and Development at the Open University, where he is Director of the inter-faculty Environment, Development and International Studies Programme. His research interests are in collective knowledge construction and the role of scientists,
technologists, and other professional agents in development practice. He has undertaken research in Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Algeria. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Pamela Furniss is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Systems at the Open University. She has many years experience of
writing teaching materials for the university on a wide range of environmental subjects, principally in the areas of water resource management. She was Course Team Chair for the production of Environmental decision making: a systems approach (T863). Richard Kimbowa works for Uganda Coalition for
Sustainable Development (UCSD), a local membership advocacy NGO. He is an alumnus of the OU's M.Sc Development Mangement Programme (2003-2006). He is professionally interested in civil society as mechanisms and institutions to secure sustainable development.
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