Fatal Consumption : Rethinking Sustainable Development.
Woollard, Robert F.
Fatal Consumption : Rethinking Sustainable Development. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Fatal Consumption -- Introduction: Fatal Consumption (When Too Much Is Not Enough) -- Part 1: The Global Reality of Sustainability -- 1 Ecological Footprints and the Pathology of Consumption -- 2 Global Consumption from the Perspective of Population Health -- 3 Social Capital, Civil Society, and Social Transformation -- Part 2: The Box We Are In and Some Ways Out -- 4 What Is Stopping Sustainability? Examining the Barriers to Implementation of Clouds of Change -- 5 Integrating Economy, Society, and Environment through Policy Assessment -- 6 Local versus Central Influences in Planning for Community Health -- Part 3: Case Examples and the Reason for Hope -- 7 The City of Richmond: Reflections on Sustainability in Action -- 8 The BC Sawmill Industry: A Case Study of Community and Ecological Sustainability -- Conclusion: Working Together and the Prospect for Hope -- Contributors -- Index.
Taking the slogan "think globally, act locally" to heart, the contributors to this book offer both an understanding of the present and hope for a sustainable future.
9780774850698
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development -- Case studies.
Sustainable development -- British Columbia -- Lower Mainland.
Electronic books.
HC117.B8 -- F38 2000eb
333.7
Fatal Consumption : Rethinking Sustainable Development. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Fatal Consumption -- Introduction: Fatal Consumption (When Too Much Is Not Enough) -- Part 1: The Global Reality of Sustainability -- 1 Ecological Footprints and the Pathology of Consumption -- 2 Global Consumption from the Perspective of Population Health -- 3 Social Capital, Civil Society, and Social Transformation -- Part 2: The Box We Are In and Some Ways Out -- 4 What Is Stopping Sustainability? Examining the Barriers to Implementation of Clouds of Change -- 5 Integrating Economy, Society, and Environment through Policy Assessment -- 6 Local versus Central Influences in Planning for Community Health -- Part 3: Case Examples and the Reason for Hope -- 7 The City of Richmond: Reflections on Sustainability in Action -- 8 The BC Sawmill Industry: A Case Study of Community and Ecological Sustainability -- Conclusion: Working Together and the Prospect for Hope -- Contributors -- Index.
Taking the slogan "think globally, act locally" to heart, the contributors to this book offer both an understanding of the present and hope for a sustainable future.
9780774850698
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development -- Case studies.
Sustainable development -- British Columbia -- Lower Mainland.
Electronic books.
HC117.B8 -- F38 2000eb
333.7