Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of Sustainability - Couverture rigide

James, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138025720 ISBN 13 : 9781138025721

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138025720
• ISBN 13: 9781138025721
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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