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Urban Sustainability In Theory And Practice

Circles Of Sustainability

Overview

This book responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement.

ISBN 9781138025721 9781138025738
Category Ecology and landscape
Call number HT241 J37 2015
Physical description 282 pages:24 cm.
Edition year 2015
Bibliographical references? Yes
Publisher name Routledge
Publication year 2015
Place of publication Abingdon, Oxon
Language English
Is series? Yes
Series name Advances In Urban Sustainability

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