TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pfister,Thomas
AU  - 
AU  - Schweighofer,Martin
AU  - Reichel,Andreas
AU  - 
AU  - 
TI  - Sustainability
SN  - 9780415714112 (hardback)
U1  - 338.927 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Clean energy
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-1060 and index; Introduction -- Historical reflection : a brief genealogy of sustainable development -- Sustainability and climate change -- Sustainability and energy systems -- Sustainability and food systems -- Sustainability as transformation and reflexivity
N2  - Sustainability as a reference frame for dealing with the interconnection of environmental, economic and social issues on a global scale is not only characterized by complex problems and long-term strategies but also by differences and disagreements with regard to its meanings and how they should be realised. Therefore, rather than seeking a single most appropriate definition of sustainability, the main focus of this book is on how specific sustainability problems are defined by whom and in which contexts, what solutions are pursued to tackle them, and which effects they have in practice. This account of the social nature of sustainability is intended to assist its readers to better understand the complexities, dynamism, and ambivalence of this concept as well as to find their own position in relation to it
ER  -