Foundations of Environmental Sustainability: The Coevolution of Science and Policy
Larry Rockwood, Ronald Stewart, and Thomas Dietz
Abstract
This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the “environment” became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace. The aim is to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental destruction taking place around the world and of the specter of climate change. The devastation of New Orleans by hurricane Katrina illustrates the potential for disaster when climate change is combined with the mismanaged environmental policy. How did we get to this point? What ha ... More
This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the “environment” became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace. The aim is to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental destruction taking place around the world and of the specter of climate change. The devastation of New Orleans by hurricane Katrina illustrates the potential for disaster when climate change is combined with the mismanaged environmental policy. How did we get to this point? What has been done and what can be done to avoid future environmental disasters? Thirty-two contributing authors (among them, one of the principal drafters of the National Environmental Policy Act, Chief of the African Environment Division and the World Bank, Vice President of the Center for Conservation Innovation at the World Wildlife Fund, President of the Zoological Society of London, former President of the Ecological Society of America) use their unique, authoritative perspective to review the evolution of environmental science and policy in the past half century.
Keywords:
environmental destruction,
climate change,
New Orleans,
hurricane Katrina,
environmental science,
environmental policy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195309454 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309454.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Larry Rockwood, editor
George Mason University
Ronald Stewart, editor
George Mason University
Thomas Dietz, editor
Michigan State University
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