| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 236 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 30
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 30.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction; PART I: Between Respectfulness and Instrumentalism; Wildlife Valuations: Lessons of Learning for Environmental Valuation and Education; Efficiency versus Equity: Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy in the Netherlands; Born Again? The U.S. Nuclear Power Movement; Public Avenues to Private Spaces: Regulating the Car; Job Losses with a Rising GDP: An Unsustainable Mix for the U.S. Economy; PART II: Responsible Stewardship and Sustainable Liberalism; What is to be Done? Towards a World to which both Labour and Environmentalists can Hold Allegiance. |
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Plant Biotechnology Projects of a Regional Research Network: Differentiation in Innovation StrategiesThe GM Nation Debate: Participatory Decision Making?; Organic Agriculture in a Global Perspective; From Ground to Bottle: Sustainable Winegrowing Practices in California; Conserving and Growing Alternatives: Theorising Seed Saving and Exchange Networks; PART III: Games for the Future; Resounding Cities: Acoustic Ecology and Games Technology; Decent Competition in a World of Households; Fractality: A Key to Global Citizenship and Ecological Justice; Notes on Contributors. |
| Summary |
In this inter-disciplinary follow-up to Future as Fairness: Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship (edited by Haugestad and Wulfhorst, Rodopi 2004) 14 chapters explore a variety of conceptual and practical pathways to the building of sustainable communities. Five chapters provide different perspectives on sustainable and unsustainable agriculture. Other cases explored are wildlife valuations, distributional effects of environmental policy, the emerging American nuclear power renaissance, regulation of care use, job losses with a raising GDP, cooperation between labour and environmentalists. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sustainable development.
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Sustainable development. |
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Communities.
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Communities. |
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Environmental policy.
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Environmental policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wulfhorst, J. D.
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Haugestad, Anne K.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Building sustainable communities. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 9789042021235 9042021233 (OCoLC)77077890 |
| ISBN |
9781429456104 (electronic book) |
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1429456108 (electronic book) |
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9789401203746 |
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9401203741 |
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