Environmental Sustainability: Approaches and Policy Options - Hardcover

Environmental Sustainability : Approaches and Policy Options

Contents Foreword Preface 1 Approaches to sustainable development an overview 2 Sustainability of environmental resources need for global thinking and local action 3 Three tier participatory global environmental governance TPGEG a mechanism for environmental sustainability 4 Macro policy initiatives and micro action plans for sustainable agriculture 5 Community action plan and policy for sustainable agriculture and sustainable development 4 Indigenous knowledge system IKS for sustainable natural resource management 7 Water for sustainable livelihood principles and challenges 8 Green energy technologies for environmental sustainability 9 Bioethics for sustainable living environment 10 Eco tourism for environmental sustainability 11 Path to climate sustainability ecological economics approach Bibliography Index This book is the outcome of research papers presented in the international and national conferences seminars workshops by the authors This book emphasizes on environmental sustainability the ability of the environment to function indefinitely without going into a decline from the stresses such as soil water and air that maintain life When the environment is sustainable humanity present needs are met without endangering the welfare of future generations The papers have common thread running over different approaches and providing policy options for achieving sustainable development Environmental sustainability should harmonize with economic social political cultural and technological sustainability The integration of different sustainabilities is essential in the context of global environmental crises which threaten the mankind in the form of global warming ozone layer depletion acid rain desertification loss of biodiversity and their associated problems With this background the authors have made a sincere effort to compile the selected papers written on different points of time which reverberated the major environmental events in the world 155 pp. Artikel-Nr. 84055

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