Overview
- Discusses sustainability in relation to real existential issues like the day to day survival of people, communities and regions
- Explores the history, present and future of environmental systems
- Highlights how mapping and measuring sustainability have become major analytical tools of the field
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability (PASTENSU)
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About this book
Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change is the first book in a new Palgrave series on Environmental Sustainability. It takes a fresh look at the dynamic field of environmental sustainability by exploring the interconnections between climate change, water, energy, waste, land use, ecosystems, food, and transportation. It also provides an extensive summary on sustainability management, data analysis, mapping, and data sources. Brinkmann highlights how environmental sustainability challenges are distinctly different in the developed world, where sustainability is largely a choice, versus the developing world, where many struggle with basic existence due to war, migration, and water or food scarcity. He takes a broad systems and historic approach to contextualize environmental sustainability prior to the 1987 Brundtland Report and utilizes many contemporary examples throughout the text, analyzing numerous case studies from many areas of the world including China, Yemen, Malaysia, Egypt, and Florida.
This book questions traditional approaches to sustainability that highlight the need for an equal balance of economic development, environmental protection, and social equality to achieve sustainability. This book focuses on a new line of thinking that places environmental sustainability as the key foundation in how to manage sustainability in a time of change. Our planet is quickly becoming environmentally unsustainable due to global consumption and unsustainable economic development and it is high time for a fresh approach. This book will be of great value to academics, practitioners, and students interested in environmental sustainability from a myriad of fields including geology, geography, biology, ecology, economics, business, sociology, anthropology, and other areas that intersect the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.
This book questions traditional approaches to sustainability that highlight the need for an equal balance of economic development, environmental protection, and social equality to achieve sustainability. This book focuses on a new line of thinking that places environmental sustainability as the key foundation in how to manage sustainability in a time of change. Our planet is quickly becoming environmentally unsustainable due to global consumption and unsustainable economic development and it is high time for a fresh approach. This book will be of great value to academics, practitioners, and students interested in environmental sustainability from a myriad of fields including geology, geography, biology, ecology, economics, business, sociology, anthropology, and other areas that intersect the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.
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Keywords
- sustainability
- environmental sustainability
- environmental management
- natural resource management
- water
- energy
- sustainable environmental management
- What Is Systems Science
- The Gaia Hypothesis
- Big Data
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Wicked Problems
- Natural Disaster studies
- Poverty and Sustainability
- Sustainable Water and Energy
- Waste Management
- Sustainable Food
- Environmental Geography
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert Brinkmann is Professor of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability at Hofstra University, USA. He is the series editor of a Palgrave book series on Environmental Sustainability and one of the Editors of The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change
Authors: Robert Brinkmann
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28203-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28202-8Published: 04 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28205-9Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28203-5Published: 18 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-5311
Series E-ISSN: 2946-532X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 325
Topics: Environment Studies, Sustainable Development, Environmental Geography, Development and Sustainability