| 书目名称 | Practicing Sustainability | | 编辑 | Guruprasad Madhavan,Barbara Oakley,Penny Low | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Features compelling narratives and fresh insights from a wide range of innovators and thought-leaders in science, engineering, business, policy, arts, health and community development.Highlights the c | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In .Practicing Sustainability., chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the contrarians, shed light on our understanding of sustainability and the role that each of us can play. Each contributor addresses what sustainability means, what is most appealing about the concept, and what they would like to change to improve the perception and practice of sustainability. What emerges from their essays is a wide spectrum of views that confirm an important insight: Sustainability is pursued in different ways not only due to different interpretations, but also because of varying incentives, trade-offs, and altruistic motives. Practicing and achieving sustainability starts with a willingness to | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 关键词 | alternative energy; biomimicry; emerging technologies; genetically modified crops; global health; green r | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4349-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-8898-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-4349-0 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 |
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