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Sustainability Assessment: Applications and opportunities book cover

1st Edition

Sustainability Assessment Applications and opportunities

Edited By Robert Gibson Copyright 2017
296 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability. While there is no single, simple means of reversing the invidious biophysical trends and redirecting the distribution of benefits, one necessary step is to approach every new and renewed undertaking as an opportunity to deliver maximum multiple, mutually reinforcing, fairly distributed and lasting gains.... Read more
  1. Foundations: sustainability and the requirements for getting there

    2. Robert B. Gibson

  2. Applications: from generic criteria and processes to applications

    3. Robert B. Gibson

  3. Building and applying a sustainability assessment framework: the Panel review of the Mackenzie Gas Project

    4. Robert B. Gibson

  4. Peanut shells in the bigger picture: sustainability assessment in the agricultural and energy systems of Senegal

    5. Kyrke Gaudreau

  5. Sustainability effects of a Brazilian sugarcane ethanol mill

    6. Carla Grigoletto Duarte and Kyrke Gaudreau

  6. The sustainability assessment of the South West Yarragadee Water Supply Development in Western Australia

    7. Jenny Pope

  7. The Lower Churchill Panel Review: sustainability assessment under legislative constraints in Canada

    8. Meinhard Doelle

  8. Sustainability assessments designed for multiple functions: five cases about water resources, nanotechnologies and communities

    9. Arnim Wiek, Christopher Kuzdas, Rider Foley, Lauren Withycombe Keeler, Nigel Forrest and Braden Kay

  9. Electricity system planning and sustainability assessment in Ontario, Canada

    10. Mark Winfield

  10. Using strategic thinking and critical decision factors to achieve sustainability: three cases in Portugal

    11. Maria Rosário Partidário

  11. Applying a sustainable assessment framework to recovery plans in eastern Tohoku, Japan

    12. Yoichi Kumagai

  12. The mitigation hierarchy and beyond: guiding appropriate biodiversity trade-offs in assessments for sustainability

    13. Susie Brownlie and Jo Treweek

  13. Opportunities

Robert B. Gibson

Biography

Robert B. Gibson is a Professor at the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Canada. He has been involved with environmental policy issues and broader sustainability imperatives as a practitioner, advisor and academic since the mid-1970s. His initial book on sustainability assessment, focused on criteria and processes, was published by Earthscan in 2005.

"Sustainability Assessment takes up the mantle from Gibson’s 2005 book seamlessly. It provides greater clarity over the approaches to be taken, allowing for significant variation to suit the diverse contexts which are clearly illustrated through case studies; and highlights the way forward to a more sustainable future." – Alan Bond, senior lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK, and Extraordinary Professor, Research Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North West University, South Africa.

"Robert Gibson's criteria-led approach to sustainability assessment and the practical examples from contributing international experts in the field is a must read. More importantly it provides a 'must do' guide to sustainable behaviours and performance." – Angus Morrison-Saunders, Associate Professor in Environmental Assessment at Murdoch University, Australia

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