Sustainability unpacked: food, energy and water for resilient environments and societies / by Kristina A. Vogt

By:

Vogt, Kristina A

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Earthscan, 2010. London:ISBN:

9781844079018

Subject(s):

Sustainable living

DDC classification:

333.7 VOG-S

Contents:

1.Sustainability: clues for positive societal and ecosystem change -- 2.Learning from the past: why societies collapsed or survived -- 3.Today: decoding country resource stories -- 4.Fossil energy endowments and externalities -- 5.Forests: the backbone and circulatory system for human societies -- 6.The soil and water connection to food: adapt, mitigate or die -- 7.The future: climate change as a global driver impacting sustainability -- 8.Where the past and future meet: soils or the unseen earth that nurtures societies -- 9.The ultimate constraint to human sustainability: solar income -- 10.Debunking sustainability myths -- 11.Portfolio for managing natural and human capital -- 12.Sustainable ecosystems: investments in human and natural capital -- 13.Final thoughts on sustainability unpacked.

Summary: Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations. This ground-breaking book examines and decodes these elements, exploring how a range of countries make decisions regarding their energy and bio-resource consumption and procurement. The authors consider how these choices impact not only the societies and environments of those countries, but the world in general. To achieve this, the authors review the merits of various sustainability and environmental metrics, and then apply these to 34 countries that are ranked low, medium or high on the human developmen

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1.Sustainability: clues for positive societal and ecosystem change --
2.Learning from the past: why societies collapsed or survived --
3.Today: decoding country resource stories --
4.Fossil energy endowments and externalities --
5.Forests: the backbone and circulatory system for human societies --
6.The soil and water connection to food: adapt, mitigate or die --
7.The future: climate change as a global driver impacting sustainability --
8.Where the past and future meet: soils or the unseen earth that nurtures societies --
9.The ultimate constraint to human sustainability: solar income --
10.Debunking sustainability myths --
11.Portfolio for managing natural and human capital --
12.Sustainable ecosystems: investments in human and natural capital --
13.Final thoughts on sustainability unpacked.

Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations. This ground-breaking book examines and decodes these elements, exploring how a range of countries make decisions regarding their energy and bio-resource consumption and procurement. The authors consider how these choices impact not only the societies and environments of those countries, but the world in general. To achieve this, the authors review the merits of various sustainability and environmental metrics, and then apply these to 34 countries that are ranked low, medium or high on the human developmen

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