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Environmental Change and Sustainability

ISBN

9781632393111

Publisher

Callisto Reference

Language

English

Publication Year

2015

Category

Environmental Sciences

Pages

307

Price

140 $

Description

Various issues related to the diverse challenges faced for sustainable change have been dealt in this elucidative book. Across the globe, climate, ecology and environment are facing rapid changes brought about by human interference. This has been further accelerated by growing population, industrialization and a globally expanding economy. Also, increasing consumer demands have only served to aggravate the challenges. Sustainability is a term used to describe policy principals that attempt to even the odds of economic development and environmental issues that arise from it. This book is a valuable addition towards the studies for sustainable ways to tackle global environmental change. The authors of this text have delved into the finer details of environmental changes that are being witnessed in various parts of the world. Various topics discussed throughout this book explain the need for location specific sustainable development. The authors have recommended taking into account; the sustainable counteractions to climatic change as a negotiated outcome between various socio-economic parameters of relevance. This book presents a timely overview on the relationship between environmental change and sustainability, approaches mentioned in natural science and importance of the understanding of environmental change interpreted by human beings. The emerging role of external events in shaping up befitting responses pertaining to environmental changes and role of sustainable development for reduction in risks and challenges as a way of reducing vulnerability have been examined closely. Global processes for a sustainable development model that synthesizes local, traditional knowledge of the environment and environmental management with the techniques and understandings generated by modern environmental science have also been elucidated in this expansive book on environmental change.

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