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  • Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development

    by Adam S. Weinberg, David N. Pellow, Allan Schnaiberg ...
    More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study of urban recycling. They compare four types of programs in the Chicago metropolitan area: a community ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Treadmill of Production

    Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy

    by Kenneth A. Gould, David N. Pellow, Allan Schnaiberg ...
    Schnaiberg's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of environmental sociology. Elaborated and tested, it has been found to be an accurate predictor of political-economic changes in the global economy. In the global South, it has figures prominently in the work of structural environmental analysts and has been used by many ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Social Problems across the Life Course

    by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Christine Bowditch, Spencer E. Cahill, Sheldon Goldenberg, Robert Granfield, Thomas Koenig, Zella Luria, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Susan E. Martin, Frances B. McCrea, Madonna Harrington Meyer, David L. Morgan, Allan Schnaiberg, Jay D. Teachman, Barrie Thorne, David R. Unruh, Susan Walzer ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    Learning to Value What Matters Most

    by Robert William Sandford, Merrell-Ann Phare ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened natural landscapes that surround us. And yet, society seems to continually ignore the need for a common-sense approach to—and appreciation of—our freshwater resources and our consumption of this remarkable, life-giving substance that now exceeds its future availability.This ground-breaking and approachable ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Sustainability

    by Kent E. Portney ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent ubiquity of the term, the concept of sustainability has come to mean a number ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Food, Globalization and Sustainability

    by Peter Oosterveer, David A. Sonnenfeld ...
    Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of international trade and global food governance. Distance in time and space between food producers and ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • A Survey of Sustainable Development

    Social And Economic Dimensions

    Edited by Jonathan Harris, Timothy Wise, Kevin Gallagher, Neva R. Goodwin ...
    Series series Frontier Issues in Economic Thought
    Perpetual economic growth is physically impossible on a planet with finite resources. Many concerned with humanity's future have focused on the concept of "sustainable development" as an alternative, as they seek means of achieving current economic and social goals without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own goals. Sustainable development brings together elements of ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition

    A Declaration of Sustainability

    by Paul Hawken ...
    The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems—is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Blindspot

    Hidden Biases of Good People

    by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald ...
    “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Enough Is Enough

    Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

    by Robert Dietz, Daniel W. O'Neill ...
    Strategies for transitioning to a steady-state economy that maximizes long-term well-being for all people.We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is not more but enough ... Read more

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  • Confronting Consumption

    Edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, Ken Conca ...
    Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways; as calls for green purchasing or more recycling, or for small changes in production processes. Many academics, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD