Paul James

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice (eBook, ePUB)

Circles of sustainability

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317658351
• Artikelnr.: 41692262

Autorenporträt

Paul James is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He was Director of the UN Global Compact Cities Programme from 2007 till 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Setting the Global-Local Scene 1. Confronting a World in Crisis 2.
Defining the World around Us Part 2: Understanding Social Life 3. Social
Domains 4. Social Mapping 5. Social Meaning Part 3. Developing Methods and
Tools 6. Assessing Sustainability 7. Generating an Urban Sustainability
Profile 8. Measuring Community Sustainability 9. Conducting a Peer Review
10. Adapting to Climate Change 11. Projecting Alternative Futures 12.
Simulating Future Trends Conclusion