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Sustainability Principles and Practice 1st Edition by Margaret Robertson (Author)
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Table of Content
• List of illustrations
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Part I Context
• 1 What Is Sustainability?
• What Is Sustainability?
• Challenges and Responses
• Sustainability as a Discipline
• 2 A Brief History of Sustainability
• Recent History: The Last 200 Years
• Early Conservation
• Transformation from Conservation to Ecology
• The Beginnings of the Environmental Movement
• US Legislation in the 1970s
• Environmental Justice and the Triple Bottom Line
• Expanding to a Global Scale
• Modern Trends
• 3 The Biosphere
• Why Study Living Systems?
• Energy and Matter
• The Four Spheres
• The Biosphere
• What Is Life?
• Gaia: Earth System Science
• Systems
• 4 The Human Sphere
• Human Impact
• Economics
• Failing States
• 5 Putting Sustainability into Practice
• Sustainability at Work
• Sustainability Initiatives
• Measurement and Reporting
• Work as Agents for Change
• Part II Issues and Solutions
• 6 Climate
• Is Earth Warming?
• How Temperature Records Are Compiled
• The Long View: Climates through Time
• Modern Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases
• The Human Factor
• Projecting into the Future
• Climate Stabilization
• Setting Up a Program to Reduce Climate Impact
• Strategies for Reducing Emissions
• Offsets
• Emissions Trading
• Adaptation
• Final Thoughts
• 7 Water
• Uneven Distribution
• Depletion of Nonrenewable Aquifers
• Threats to Human and Ecosystem Health
• Consumption
• Effects of Climate Change
• Water Conservation
• Wastewater Treatment
• Stormwater
• 8 Ecosystems and Habitat
• Populations and Extinction
• Drivers of Ecosystem Change
• Conservation and Restoration
• Conservation
• Restoration Ecology
• Living Together: Reconciliation Ecology
• 9 Pollution
• Types of Toxins
• Pollution Transport and Fate
• Air Pollution
• Soil and Land Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Organic Pollutants
• Inorganic Pollutants
• Endocrine Disruptors
• Persistent Organic Pollutants
• Point Source and Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Radioactive Pollutants
• Pollution Remediation
• Pollution Prevention
• 10 Energy
• Fossil Fuels
• Renewable Energy
• Energy Efficiency
• Making the Transition
• 11 Green Buildings and Sites
• What Is a Green Building?
• The Process of Green Building Design
• Building Envelope
• Lighting
• Passive Heating and Cooling Concepts
• Heating
• Cooling
• Ventilation
• Construction
• Rating Systems
• Living Building Challenge
• Aesthetics
• Sustainable Sites
• Health and Well-Being
• 12 Livable Cities
• Sprawl
• Land-Use Planning
• Urban Planning
• Building Community
• Transportation
• Cities and Climate Change
• 13 Food
• Farming Methods
• Human Health Issues
• Planetary Health Issues
• Feeding Ourselves
• Finding Space for Food in the City
• Food on Public Land
• Healthy Soil: The Vital Foundation
• 14 Products
• Design for the Environment (DFE)
• Industrial Ecology
• Process Design
• Product Alternatives
• Product Design
• Shipping and Packaging
• ISO 14000 Standards
• Certifications and Labels: Making Sense of Materials
• Eco-Labels
• 15 Waste and Recycling
• Waste Management
• Landfills
• Incineration
• Recycling
• C&D Waste
• Industrial Waste
• Zero Waste
• Part III Becoming an Agent for Change
• 16 Working in an Organization
• Governance
• People
• The Planning Process
• Making the Business Case for Sustainability
• Frameworks
• Implementation
• 17 Education: Preparing a New Generation to Live Well in a Changing World
• Biophilia
• Bioregionalism and Place-Based Learning
• Learning by Doing: Experiential Learning
• The Learning Environment
• Stages of Development: Humans as Lifelong Learners
• 18 Working as Agents for Change
• Efforts Big and Small
• Fostering Sustainable Behavior
• Working Together
• What Now?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
