Practicing Sustainability /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Biographical Information
- Preface, It’s Different: Sustainability and Touchy Trade-Offs, Editors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword, Michael Spence
- Editorial, Klaus Schwab
- Editorial, Sustaining Sustainability: Thoughts on Managing Trade-Offs and Competing Considerations, Robert Rubin
- Editorial, Sustainability: Can You Get There, If You Don’t Know Where “There” Is? George Whitesides
- 1. What Medical Equipment Taught Me About Sustainability, Robert Malkin
- 2. Food: The Ultimate Answer, José Andrés
- 3. A Village of Hope: The Interplay of Sustainability and Community Development, Mark Templer
- 4. Trade-Offs in Sustainable Development, Homi Kharas
- 5. Sustainable Skyscrapers and the Well-Being of the City, Richard Cook
- 6. Dimensional Stability, Heidi Williamson
- 7. Sustainability: A Tale of Twin Brothers, Ken Wilson
- 8. Cooperation and Sustainability, Simon Levin
- 9. The Sincerity of Purpose: Sustainability and World Peace, Arun Gandhi
- 10. Recycling Reinvented: Music and Sustainability, José-Luis Novo
- 11. Connectivity and Sustainability: Perspectives from Landscape and Urban Design, Diana Balmori
- 12. Nutrition and Sustainability, Marc Van Ameringen
- 13. A Poet in the Car Company: Sustainability of Passion and Profitability, David Berdish
- 14. The Need for Sustainable Heretics, Freeman Dyson
- 15. Performance with Purpose, Dave Haft
- 16. The Business of Sustainability: A Different Design Question, Gregor Barnum
- 17. Sustaining Population Health, Jacqueline Sherris
- 18. The Struggle to Make Sustainable Change in Global Health, Laurie Garrett and Zoe Liberman
- 19. Economic Growth and Sustainability Rooted in Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant
- 20. Approaching the Future with Optimism, Robyn Beavers
- 21. A Decent Place to Live, Jonathan Reckford
- 22. From Field to Market: Changing our Focus, Gerald Steiner
- 23. Joules: The Currency of Sustainability, Chandrakant Patel
- 24. Spoons or Tractors: Sustainable Development as Rapid Productivity Growth in Developing Nations, Robert Atkinson
- 25. Unlocking the Energy of Business to Effect Change, Meg Crawford
- 26. Put it on Paper: Lowering Healthcare Costs, Una Ryan
- 27. Mind the Gap: A Different Take on Sustainability, Matthew Taylor
- 28. Sustainable Scientific Research, K.R. Sreenivasan
- 29. Energizing Sustainable Development, V.S. Ramamurthy and Narendar Pani
- 30. The Importance of Sustainability in Helping the Poor, Mechai Viravaidya
- 31. Why is Waste a Dirty Word? Melanie Walker
- 32. How Much Is Enough? Making It Personal, Toinette Lippe
- 33. Teaching Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era, Kai Lee and Richard Howarth
- 34. Don’t Sustain; Advance, Kevin Finneran
- 35. Changemakers for Sustainability, Karabi Acharya
- 36. What Social Entrepreneurs Taught me about Sustainability, Mirjam Schöning
- 37. An Emotional Connection with Sustainability through Documentary Films, Heather MacAndrew and David Springbett
- 38. Conserving Energy for Tomorrow without Sacrificing Quality of Our Lives, Scott Tew
- 39. Sustainability of Our Ocean Resources, James Barry
- 40. Will it Last? Will it Endure? Andrea Coleman and Barry Coleman
- 41. The Holistic Enchilada: Moving Toward Food System Sustainability, Wayne Roberts
- 42. Bringing Organizational Sustainability to Public Postsecondary Education, Christopher Hayter and Robert Hayter
- 43. Ensuring Connections, Harvey Locke
- 44. Beyond the Status Quo: Catalyzing Sustainability in the Arts, Jane Milosch
- 45. Historic Preservation: The Real Sustainable Development, Donovan Rypkema
- 46. Bending Toward Justice: The Search for Sustainable Energy, Michael Brune
- Afterword, M.S. Swaminathan.