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   Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

   Edited by Robert Vale and Brenda Vale

   The way in which humanity is using the planet's resources is unsustainable. Based on quantified research, this book calculates a fair share ecological footprint and demonstrates how to live within it at minimal cost It is shown that a workable, practical change in behavior now will avoid very challenging problems in the future.
    

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   Low Carbon Development

   Edited by Frauke Urban and Johan Nordensvärd

   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. Find out more here.

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   Reconstructing Sustainability Science

   By Thaddeus Miller

   Sustainability science is an interdisciplinary, problem-driven field that seeks to address fundamental questions on human-environment interactions. This book repositions sustainability science as a "science of design"—that is, a normative science of what ought to be in order to achieve certain goals—rather than a science of what is. It develops a foundation for a sustainability science that is solutions-oriented, aiming to enrich public reasoning and deliberation while also working to generate social and technological innovations for a more sustainable future. It provides an essential understanding of the complex relationship between science, social change and the normative dimensions of sustainability.

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   Urban Ecosystems

   By Robert A. Francis and Michael A. Chadwick
   
   With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. This book aims to review what is currently known about urban ecosystems in a short and approachable text that will serve as a key resource for teaching and learning related to the urban environment.
    

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   Sustainability for Healthcare Management

   By Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton and Seema S. Wadhwa

   This book focuses readers on upstream decision-making in the healthcare delivery setting to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. The Authors explore leadership priorities, linking them to sustainability, through an imaginary health leader, Fred, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Memorial Hospital, a community hospital based in the United States. Bringing together the key components and concepts of environmentally sustainable healthcare operations, this book will be of great importance to researchers, students and professionals working in health and healthcare management.

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   Metrics for Agricultural Sustainability by Marty D. Matlock

   Most authorities explain sustainable agriculture by practice, such as organic or local. Several initiatives of US producers have defined agricultural sustainability based upon impacts on the supply network, from extraction to disposal (also called outcomes metrics). The outcomes metrics of impacts for sustainable agriculture are defined by boundaries such as farm gate, factory gate, and consumer use and disposal. However, these metrics have not been well described or inventoried, resulting in confusion and misuse of information. This book clarifies this confusion, by providing an inventory of the metrics for sustainable agriculture from cradle to the farm gate, organized by media and scale.
    

7. Community Biodiversity Management

   By Walter Simon de Boef, Nivaldo Peroni, Abishkar Subedi, Marja Thijssen and Elizabeth O'Keeffe
   
   The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the environments where this diversity originated or is being used, are issues which are high on the policy agenda. As part of efforts to implement this in situ conservation strategy, development organizations have recently created a common methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM). This book is the first to set out a clear overview of CBM, as an approach to meet social, economic and environmental change.  

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   Evaluating Communication for Development by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi

   Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and evaluation and offers an alternative holistic, participatory, mixed methods approach based on systems and complexity thinking and other key concepts.

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   A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation by Tim Magee

   The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation illustrates how including community members in project design and co-management leads to long-lasting, successful achievement of development and adaptation goals.

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    Principles of Sustainable Aquaculture by Stuart Bunting

    Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, principally fish, molluscs, crustaceans and marine algae. It has seen phenomenal worldwide growth in the past fifty years and many people view it as the best solution for the provision of high quality protein to feed the world's growing population, particularly with the rapid decline in wild marine fish populations. Focused on developing more sustainable aquaculture practices, this book provides an ideal advanced-level textbook.

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