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The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture, innovative policies and laws, and historic international agreements. Yet the means to achieving sustainability remain unsettled and disputed, even as its crucial importance in the face of the climate crisis grows.
The third edition of this popular and lively text explores the concept and practice of sustainability across a broad range of issues and topics. Fully revised and updated, the book underlines the importance of creativity in the service of conservation within ecological, economic, technological, political, legal, and cultural arenas. Chapters conclude with new Discuss, Explore, and Take Action sections that pose probing questions for review and discussion. A new final chapter presents four practical principles that readers may employ to guide the investigation of sustainability problems and their crafting of viable solutions.
Sustainability presents a hopeful account of the opportunities before us while squarely confronting the daunting challenges that lie ahead. It provides a crucial resource for students grappling with many of the most urgent issues of our time.
The third edition of this popular and lively text explores the concept and practice of sustainability across a broad range of issues and topics. Fully revised and updated, the book underlines the importance of creativity in the service of conservation within ecological, economic, technological, political, legal, and cultural arenas. Chapters conclude with new Discuss, Explore, and Take Action sections that pose probing questions for review and discussion. A new final chapter presents four practical principles that readers may employ to guide the investigation of sustainability problems and their crafting of viable solutions.
Sustainability presents a hopeful account of the opportunities before us while squarely confronting the daunting challenges that lie ahead. It provides a crucial resource for students grappling with many of the most urgent issues of our time.
"This is still the best book on sustainability in print. Whether and how humankind survives the coming bottleneck is the issue of our time. Leslie Paul Thiele is a thoughtful and insightful guide to the perplexing and complex challenges ahead."
David Orr, Arizona State University
"Leslie Paul Thiele's improved third edition of Sustainability is an excellent way to introduce students to the greatest ecological problem facing global society today--overshoot, of which climate change is a major symptom. It should be on every environmental reading list."
William Rees, University of British Columbia
David Orr, Arizona State University
"Leslie Paul Thiele's improved third edition of Sustainability is an excellent way to introduce students to the greatest ecological problem facing global society today--overshoot, of which climate change is a major symptom. It should be on every environmental reading list."
William Rees, University of British Columbia
"Whether and how humankind survives the bottleneck ahead is the issue of our time. Les Thiele is a thoughtful and insightful guide to the perplexing and complex issues ahead. This is the best short book on sustainability in print."
David W. Orr, Oberlin College, author of Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
"There are lots of books about sustainability these days, but this one tells the story in a way that is both compelling and inspiring. It's one of the best introductions to the topic I have seen and at the same time has the perceptive depth to engage experienced practitioners."
Robert Costanza, Australian National University
David W. Orr, Oberlin College, author of Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
"There are lots of books about sustainability these days, but this one tells the story in a way that is both compelling and inspiring. It's one of the best introductions to the topic I have seen and at the same time has the perceptive depth to engage experienced practitioners."
Robert Costanza, Australian National University