| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 141 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Environmental and social sustainability for business advantage collection,
2327-3348
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Environmental and social sustainability for business advantage collection.
2327-3348
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-135) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Sustainability and the Yellowstone River Valley -- Chapter 2. Economic well-being in the Yellowstone River Valley -- Chapter 3. Environmental well-being in the Yellowstone River Valley -- Chapter 4. Social well-being in the Yellowstone River Valley -- Chapter 5. Sustainability's complexities -- Chapter 6. Progress of sustainability and sustainability as progress. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
Using the iconic Yellowstone River Valley of Montana as a case setting, this book is perfect for students with limited prior understanding of sustainability issues, theory, or science. The case explains how economic, environmental, and social concerns are threaded together as challenges that communities face when they imagine their long-term futures. Readers with business interests will appreciate the attention given to issues involving long-term profitability, while natural resource managers will appreciate the discussions of physical processes and nonhuman species. Others will be interested in the discussions of public policy concerns, including water law and endangered species. The case also intersects with interests of American Indians, especially concerning historical water rights. While useful and practical understandings of sustainability concepts are stressed, the details of the case expose complexities associated with improving community resilience. The authors give attention to how the valley's people express sustainability concerns, and readers are likely to recognize similar concerns in watersheds where they live. The case can, thus, function as a first step in a scaffolded curriculum designed to move students from understanding complexity into data gathering, analyses, and decision making. It provides platforms for exploring practical, theoretical, and scientific issues as linked exercises or as advanced projects. The case can also be used as a catalyst for identifying dozens of career trajectories. The National Science Foundation provided funding to pilot a similar version of this text, and the majority of the content has been empirically tested for its ability to connect STEM-based analyses to sustainability questions. |
| Form |
Also available in print. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader. |
| Subject |
Sustainability -- Yellowstone River Valley.
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Sustainability. |
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Sustainable development -- Yellowstone River Valley.
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Sustainable development. |
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Social responsibility of business -- Yellowstone River Valley.
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Social responsibility of business. |
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Yellowstone River Valley -- Environmental conditions.
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| Indexed Term |
Sustainability. |
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Economic well-being. |
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Agriculture. |
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Tourism. |
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Oil and gas development. |
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Fracking. |
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Hydraulic fracturing. |
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Environmental well-being. |
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Cottonwood forests. |
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Pallid Sturgeon. |
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Endangered species. |
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Social wellbeing. |
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Fairness. |
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Environmental justice. |
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Resilience. |
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Sustainable development. |
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Sustainability science. |
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Native American. |
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American Indian water rights. |
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Water law. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hall, Damon M., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781637421475 |
| ISBN |
9781637421482 e-book |
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9781637421475 print |
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