Includes bibliographical references and index. Errata slip inserted.
Contents:
National governance : still stumbling toward sustainability / John C. Dernbach. Progress toward sustainability : a report card -- Agenda for a sustainable America. -- Local governance and sustainability : growing progress, major challenges / Jonathan Weiss -- Brownfields redevelopment : from individual sites to smart growth / Joel B. Eisen -- Business and industry : transitioning to sustainability / Ira Robert Feldman -- Higher education : emerging laboratories for inventing a sustainable future / Wynn Calder and Julian Dautremont-Smith -- Kindergarten through twelfth grade : piecemeal but significant progress in preparing students to create a more sustainable future / Carmela Federico and Jaimie Cloud -- Religion and ethics focused on sustainability / Dieter T. Hessel -- Energy : sustainable and unsustainable developments / Mark D. Levine and Nathaniel T. Aden -- Materials : from high consumption to more sustainable resource use / Amit Kapur and Thomas E. Graedel -- The importance of population stabilization to sustainability / Anne H. Ehrlich and James Salzman -- Poverty : greening the tax and transfer system to create more opportunities / Jonathan Barry Forman -- Freshwater : sustaining use by protecting ecosystems / Robert W. Adler -- Oceans and estuaries : the Ocean Commissions' unfulfilled vision / Robin Kundis Craig -- Air quality : the need to replace basic technologies with cleaner alternatives / David Driesen -- Climate change : the unmet obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions / Donald A. Brown -- Biodiversity conservation : an unrealized aspiration / A. Dan Tarlock and Andrew Zabel -- Sustainable forestry : moving from concept to consistent practice / Federico Cheever and Ward J. Scott -- Toxic chemicals and pesticides : not yet preventing pollution / Lynn R. Goldman -- Hazardous waste and superfund : few changes and little progress / Joel A. Mintz -- Municipal solid waste : building stronger connections to jobs and the economy / Marian Chertow -- Land use : blending smart growth with social equity and climate change mitigation / Patricia Salkin -- Transportation : challenges and choices / Trip Pollard -- International trade : sustainability as a multilateral, bilateral, and regional effort / Kevin C. Kennedy -- Official development assistance : toward funding for sustainability / Royal C. Gardner and Ezequiel Lugo -- Financing sustainable development / Frances Seymour, Smita Nakhooda, and Sabina Ahmed -- Lead poisoning and pollution : opportunities for internationalized solutions / K.W. James Rochow -- State governance : leadership on climate change / Kirsten H. Engel and Marc L. Miller -- Public access to information, participation, and justice : forward and backward steps toward an informed and engaged citizenry / Carl Bruch, Frances Irwin, and Gary D. Bass -- National governance : still stumbling toward sustainability / John C. Dernbach.
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