Fatal Consumption: Rethinking Sustainable Development (Sustainability and the Environment Series, Band 5) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774807873 ISBN 13: 9780774807876

Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Why do we claim to value sustainability while acting in an unsustainable fashion? How can we reduce our consumption drastically and move toward a sustainable social system when our society is specifically based on consumption? These two linked questions are at the heart of this important book, the result of a four-year interdisciplinary study of British Columbia’s Lower Fraser Basin.

Taking the slogan “think globally, act locally” to heart, the contributors to Fatal Consumption are theoretical as well as practical. Though specific in focus, the analysis in Fatal Consumption can be generalized to most North American urban areas. It offers both an understanding of the present and hope for a sustainable future, counterbalancing a discussion of the opportunities for change with a frank examination of the barriers to such change.

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Robert R. Woollard, MD is Royal Canadian Legion Professor and head of the Department of Family Practice and Aleck S. Ostry is assistant professor of health care and epidemiology, both in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774807873
• ISBN 13: 9780774807876
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Herausgeber: Woollard Robert F.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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