Sustainability Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Hardcover

Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the issues of sustainability at the international, national and regional level have become a top priority for national governments, business leaders and NGOs. Sustainability Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach is the result of collective reflection by an international group of academics from Canada, France, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. It was inspired by the interdisciplinary discussions started in St Petersburg, Russia at the conference Globalisation, New Economy, and the Environment: Business and Society Challenges for Sustainable Development, organized by the editors of this volume under the auspices of the International Society for Ecological Economics in 2005. This book explores the major actors, paradigms and ideologies in sustainable development, employing novel approaches such as linguistic and discourse analysis as well as simulation games and the psychology of ecological consciousness to provide an important contribution to the environmental policy field.

JUDY BROWN School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand BEAT BÜRGENMEIER Centre of Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland TERRY COOK Energy and Environment Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK DAVID ELLIOT Energy and Environment Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK FERENC FODOR EDF, Paris, France ANTHONY FRIEND Oikos, Ottawa, Canada IRINA GLAZYRINA Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Cryology, Chita, Russia and the Chita State University, Chita, Russia DMITRY KAVTARADZE Laboratory of Complex Systems Management Modelling, School of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia ELENA LIKHACHEVA Laboratory of Complex Systems Management Modelling, School of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia GALINA E. MEKUSH General and Regional Economics Department, Kemerovo University, Russia STANISLAV SHMELEV University of Oxford, UK, and Environment Europe IRINA SHMELEVA, School of International Relations, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia PETER SÖDERBAUM School of Sustainable Development of Science and Technology, Mälardalen University, Sweden ARILD VATN Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway