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This comprehensive textbook brings together in one volume the broad spectrum of topics covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. The book provides postgraduate and final year undergraduate students in sustainable development and in environmental studies with a wealth of international and interdisciplinary expertise to challenge their thinking in new ways on the key issues in sustainability.

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between media and cultural perceptions of the environment.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of environmental justice. Written by leading experts from a variety of professional, geographic and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. This book is the ideal toolkit for researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of environmental justice. Written by leading experts from a variety of professional, geographic and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. This book is the ideal toolkit for researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates.

This is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development, taking an international and interdisciplinary approach to the subject by drawing on insights from across the sciences and social sciences whilst embedding the discussion in a global context. Written by an international team of leading academics and practitioners in low carbon development, this book is essential reading for students, academics, professionals and policy-makers interested in low carbon development and climate change policy.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. Each chapter covers one key idea, and has been written by an expert in that field. This book makes key issues approachable, with each chapter containing: a definition of the key concept a history of how and why the issue has emerged a discussion of the advantages, drawbacks, main contributions and controversies associated with this issue case studies to demonstrate how it works in reality critical discussion of mainstream models of sustainability and the reason why they don''t work introduction of beyond-the-convention alternatives, including circular economy and cradle to cradle approaches This is the ideal book for students and anyone interested in understanding the key issues within sustainability and how they interact.

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between media and cultural perceptions of the environment.

Sustainability Science: Key issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates and postgraudates from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science.