Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice [signed by Matson for Thomas Lovejoy] [Thomas Lovejoy's copy]
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2016
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Hardcover with DJ. Dark blue cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine. Binding clean and tight. Colorful DJ crisp and clean with no signs of wear except minor rubbing to crown of spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 2016. Number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 231 pages. Black and white illustrations in the text; pages bright and clean with no marks or tears. Signed on FFE by Pamela Matson with inscription, "To Tom--you are a true leader, & role model for me--Thank you for your leadership for people & the planet--Pam." A very good signed copy. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term biological diversity to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. …
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- Title
- Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice [signed by Matson for Thomas Lovejoy] [Thomas Lovejoy's copy]
- Author
- Matson, Pamela, William C. Clark, and Krister Andersson [signed by Matson for Thomas Lovejoy] [Thomas Lovejoy's copy]
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691157618
- ISBN 13
- 9780691157610
- Seller catalogs
- Lovejoy
An essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitioners
Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food, water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world.
Written by leading experts, Pursuing Sustainability shows how more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives can help you achieve your sustainability objectives. It stresses the need for understanding how capital assets are linked to sustainability goals through the complex adaptive dynamics of social-environmental systems, how committed people can use governance processes to alter those dynamics, and how successful interventions can be shaped through collaborations among researchers and practitioners on the ground.
The ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and an invaluable resource for anyone working in this fast-growing field, Pursuing Sustainability also features case studies, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading.
- Provides a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action
- Draws on the latest cutting-edge science and practices
- Serves as the ideal companion text to more narrowly focused courses
- Utilizes interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives
- Illustrates concepts with a core set of case studies used throughout the book
- Written by world authorities on sustainability
- An online illustration package is available to professors
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