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Title:
Environment, development, and sustainability : perspectives and cases from around the world / edited by Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss, Richard Kimbowa.
Publisher:
In association with The Open University,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xix, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Sustainable development--Case studies.
Environmentalism--Case studies.
Other Authors:
Wilson, Gordon, Dr.
Furniss, Pamela.
Kimbowa, Richard.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction, Scientific, social science, and technological approaches to understanding environmental change / David Cooke ... [et al.]. Challenge for environment, development, and sustainability in China / Kelly Gallagher -- Rural development and environment in Uganda / Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Mulondo Ssenkaali, and Fred Onyai -- Traditional and modern (or improved) rural water supplies : stories from Ethiopia and Niger / Kerstin Danert -- Souvenirs of communism : missed opportunities for sustainable development innovations in the enlarged European union? / Petr Jehlička -- Sustainable transport systems : learning from Cuba / James Warren -- At the coal face in Australia : the youth climate movement / Nicky Ison -- Social dynamics of the US environmental challenge / Ben Crow -- Looking beyond the visible : contesting environmental agendas for Mumbai's slums / Dina Abbott -- Climate change : causes and consequences / Roger Blackmore -- Can ecosystems be managed sustainably? Biodiversity and tropical forests / Michael Gillman -- Conservation and development in Scotland and Uganda / Adeline Muheebwa and Roger Wheater -- Managing water for sustainable development across international boundaries : the Rhine river basin / Sandrine Simon -- Municipal waste management and the environmental health challenge : a tale of two cities / Stephen Burnley, Richard Kimbowa, and Isaac Banadda Nswa -- Environment, inequality, and the internal contradictions of globalization / Raphael Kaplinsky -- Environmental ethics and development / Martin Reynolds -- Local governance and sustainable development in Wales : making a difference? / Alan Thomas -- Cities and climate change : leading to a low carbon London / Godfrey Boyle -- Exploring participation in science, technology, and innovation : tissue culture bananas in Kenya / Joanna Chataway, Peter Robbins, and James Smith -- Designing for sustainability / Robin Roy -- Corporate responsibility in practice : building an eco-city from scratch / James Warren -- Innovative partnerships for sustainable development in Harare, Zimbabwe ; Community-led sustainable development : the champion approach / Charlene Hewat and Barbara Banda -- Why involve the public? Case studies of public involvement in environmental initiatives in South Africa / Kevin Winter -- Tools and techniques for environmental decision making / Pamela Furniss and Chris Blackmore -- Scientific, social science, and technological approaches to understanding environmental change / David Cooke ... [et al.].
ISBN:
0199560641
9780199560646
OCLC:
(OCoLC)373561326
LCCN:
2009022552
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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