Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About This Book and Series -- Part One: Background, Theory, and Context -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Background and History of Sustainability -- 3. Narratives of Sustainability: Key Concepts and Issues -- 4. Enacting Sustainability -- 5. Issues of Scale in Producing Sustainability -- 6. The Range of Environmental Concerns -- Part Two: Case Studies -- 7. Introduction to the Case Studies -- 8. Alternative Food Movements and Transition Towns in the United Kingdom -- 9. Community Forestry and Sustainability in Nepal -- 10. Sustainable Mining and the North -- 11. Governing Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Sustainability -- 12. Rethinking Sustainable Community Through Permaculture Initiatives in Zimbabwe -- 13. The Entanglements of Oil Extraction and Sustainability in the Ecuadorian Amazon -- 14. Sustainability and Gender Equality: Exploring the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- 15. Sustaining What and By What Means? The Importance of Local Social Relations in the Sahel -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this student-friendly text helps students to understand the globalizing processes relating to environment and sustainability that are examined in a range of disciplines, including environmental studies, geography, global studies, political science, international affairs, comparative politics.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.