Sustainability: If It's Everything, Is It Nothing? (Critical Issues in Global Politics) [Paperback]
Today, the concept of sustainability is a widespread goal that nearly everyone supports. At the same time, almost no one means the same thing when they use the term. Sustainability is so broad and overly used that it seems to mean everything to everyone. The result is that the concept has lost its meaning. In this book, the authors examine the misuses and abuses of "sustainability" and seek to refine and clarify the concept. The authors offer a new definition of sustainability – what they call neo-sustainability – to help guide policies and practices that respect the primacy of the environment, the natural limits of the environment, and the relationship between environmental, social, and economic systems. - *Paperback:* 192 pages - *Publisher:* Routledge; 1 edition (August 24, 2013) - *Language:* English - *ISBN-10:* 0415783542 - *ISBN-13:* 978-0415783545 Heather Farley and Zachary A. Smith bring a desperately needed critique to the notions and politics of sustainability that is absolutely necessary if we are to achieve anything remotely livable for the future. Sustainability is an idea that no-one wants to disagree with, but which few are willing to confront serious trade-offs in the status quo in business, government and even in civil society. This text is a forceful tonic for a very sick patient. Peter Jacques (author of *Environmental Skepticism: Ecology, Power, and Public Life *by Ashgate, and coauthor with Sharon Ridgeway of *The Power of the Talking Stick: Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis* by Paradigm). - -- Zachary A. Smith, Ph.D. Regents' Professor Natural Resources and Environmental Policy Department of Politics ans International Affairs Box 15036 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011 [email protected] web page: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~zas/ fax 928-523-6777 phone 928-523-7020 "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts" William Bruce Cameron CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files for previous e-mail messages attached to it may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or return e-mail and delete the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner. Thank you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
