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.
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