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Sustainability - A History (Paperback)
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Sustainability - A History (Paperback)
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The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for
"sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable
agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to
city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable
development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe
betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable
lifestyle." Seeming to have come out of nowhere to dominate the
discussion-from permaculture to renewable energy to the local food
movement-the ideas that underlie and define sustainability can be
traced back several centuries. In this illuminating and fascinating
primer, Jeremy L. Caradonna does just that, approaching
sustainability from a historical perspective and revealing the
conditions that gave it shape. Locating the underpinnings of the
movement as far back as the 1660s, Caradonna considers the origins
of sustainability across many fields throughout Europe and North
America. Taking us from the emergence of thoughts guiding
sustainable yield forestry in the late 17th and 18th centuries,
through the challenges of the Industrial Revolution, the birth of
the environmental movement, and the emergence of a concrete effort
to promote a balanced approach to development in the latter half of
the 20th century, he shows that while sustainability draws upon
ideas of social justice, ecological economics, and environmental
conservation, it is more than the sum of its parts and blends these
ideas together into a dynamic philosophy. Caradonna's book broadens
our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it
progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that
shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and
corporate strategies, and even national and international policy.
For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make
the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.
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