Values in Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Appleton, Jack

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how to include values in sustainable develoment research and practice, giving methods to gain an understanding of participants' values, with examples of sustainable development projects which have been influenced by values as well as statements of values towards the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136165672
• Artikelnr.: 39448683

Autorenporträt

Jack Appleton is a research fellow at the University of Malaysia Sabah, Borneo, and teaches 'Principles of Sustainability' and 'Research and Quantitative Methods' at Merlyhurst University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Methods for Understanding Individuals' Values 1. Caring for What We
Care About 2. Including Participants' Values in the Sustainable Development
Process 3. Constructing Values and Beliefs: A Relational Approach to
Sustainable Development 4. Understanding Values Using Critical Discourse
Analysis 5. Psychometrics: Measuring Attitudes and Values about the
Environment 6. Determining Environmental Values Using Focus Groups 7.
Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling at BP 8. Charrettes in the
Sustainable Development Process 9. Science and Sustainability: A Transition
Research Perspective Part 2: Religious and Ethnically Based Environmental
Values 10. Indigenous Peoples Environmental Values 11. Hindu Traditions and
the Environment 12. The Jewish Tradition of Sterwardship 13. Christian
Stewardship 14. Islam and Stewardship 15. The Social Construction of
African-American Environmental Values 16. Latin Americans and the
Environment: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values 17. Post-Disaster Japan's
Environmental Transition 18. Environmental Values in China 19. African
Environmental Values Expressed through Proverbs 20. Achieving
Sustainability in Nigeria Part 3: Examples of Values Guiding Organizational
Behavior 21. Sustainable Perspectivalism: Who Sustains Whom? 22.
Landscaping with Sustainability Principles 23. Bringing Sustainability and
Science to the Incarcerated: The Sustainable Prisons Project 24. Designing
Environmental Education Programs: Modeling Pro-environmental Competency 25.
Avoiding Wrong Turns on the Road to Ecosystem Services Valuation 26. Values
and Strategies for the Environment and Sustainable Development 27. Building
Resilience in East African Cities: The Spirit Of 'Harambee': The Nexus
Between Sustainability and Climate Change Response 28. The Impact of
Development on Biodiversity in Singapore 29. Environmental Law as a
Foundation for Sustainable Development