Overview
- Editors:
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Giuseppe T. Cirella
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Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk, Sopot, Poland
- Highlights the link between societal changes and sustainable development
- Includes up-to-date case studies revealing emerging success stories from the developing world
- Contains a special chapter explaining how contemporary ideas of sustainability have been developed
- Illustrated with easy to read tables and figures showing challenges for contemporary society
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxvi
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Sustainability: Understanding and Insight
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- Giuseppe T. Cirella, Samuel W. Mwangi, Andrzej Paczoski, Solomon T. Abebe
Pages 3-22
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- Piroska Ángel, Kay Bergamini
Pages 23-47
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- Federico Benassi, Alessia Naccarato
Pages 49-62
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- Samuel W. Mwangi, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 63-78
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- Tea Požar, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 79-98
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Economic Evaluation: Perspective Ideas
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- Bedane Sh. Gemeda, Birhanu G. Abebe, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 101-121
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- Sutatip Chavanavesskul, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 123-138
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- Andrzej Paczoski, Solomon T. Abebe, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 139-169
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- Matjaž N. Perc, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 171-184
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Urbanization and Sustainability Strategies
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Front Matter
Pages 185-185
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- Alessio Russo, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 187-204
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- Agus Supriyadi, Tao Wang, Shanshan Chu, Tianwu Ma, Raden G. Shaumirahman, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Pages 205-223
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Back Matter
Pages 225-240
About this book
This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago. Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key concepts and techniques that have been tested and continue to be tested, within various multi-disciplinary fields, on societal functionality. Research into sustainable societies needs to be sound, ethical, and creative. A cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary examination of challenges and strategies is used to interlink sustainability thinking and human-nature relations. With an ever-growing number of people now concentrated within urban areas, providing not only environmental quality and livable space, but also security and resilient urban systems, is becoming increasingly important. This urbanization trend has overlapped with environmental degradation, consumption of natural resources, habitat loss, and overall ecosystem change. Consequently, the goal is for cleaner, safer societies – with higher standards of living – to excel in support of current and future generational communities. The book tackles these challenges by integrating environmental scholarship, economic evaluation, and urban strategies under one umbrella of thought. The relational paradigms presented include examples that correlate developed and developing countries, socioeconomics and community development, and governance of knowledge and education. As such, the book argues, furthering of knowhow should be accessible and shared in order to achieve maximum innovation and benefit. Sustainability thinking, after all, is a metric for intrinsic human-nature relations in terms of past performance, present development, and future goals. This book discusses this metric and offers novel approaches to growing societies and what we can do next.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk, Sopot, Poland
Giuseppe T. Cirella
About the editor
Dr. Cirella completed his Ph.D. at Griffith University, Australia. He is currently a Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland, and also the Founder of the Polo Centre of Sustainability. His research interests are in the areas of sustainable development, consumption, globalisation and resources, sustainability indices and trends, human geography, and interdisciplinary societal studies.