Agenda for a sustainable America / John C. Dernbach, editor.
2009
KF5505 .A44 2009 (Mapit)
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Agenda for a sustainable America / John C. Dernbach, editor.
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Washington, D.C. : ELI Press, Environmental Law Institute, 2009.
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xxvii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Sustainable development and the United States / John C. Dernbach
Progress toward sustainability : a report card
Agenda for a sustainable America.
Local governance and sustainability : major progress, significant challenges / Jonathan D. Weiss
Brownfields development : from individual sites to smart growth / Joel B. Eisen
Business and industry : transitioning to sustainability / Ira Robert Feldman
Higher education : more and more laboratories for inventing a sustainable future / Wynn Calder and Julian Dautremont-Smith
Kindergarten through twelfth grade education : fragmentary progress in equipping students to think and act in a challenging world / Carmela Federico and Jaimie Cloud
Religion and ethics focused on sustainability / Dieter T. Hessel
Sustainable and unsustainable developments in the U.S. energy system / Mark D. Levine and Nathaniel T. Aden
Materials : from high consumption to more sustainable resource use / Amit Kapur and Thomas E. Graedel
The importance of curbing and ending population growth to achieve sustainability / Anne H. Ehrlich and James Salzman
Poverty : greening the tax and transfer system to create more opportunities / Jonathan Barry Forman
Freshwater : sustaining use by protecting ecosystems / Robert W. Adler
Oceans and estuaries : the Ocean Commissions' unfulfilled vision / Robin Kundis Craig
Air quality : the need to replace basic technologies with cleaner alternatives / David M. Driesen
Climate change : the unmet obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions / Donald A. Brown
Biodiversity conservation : an unrealized aspiration / A. Dan Tarlock and Andrew Zabel
Sustainable forestry : moving from concept to consistent practice / Federico Cheever and Ward J. Scott
Toxic chemicals and pesticides : not yet preventing pollution / Lynn R. Goldman
Hazardous waste and superfund : few changes and little progress / Joel A. Mintz
Municipal solid waste : building stronger connections to jobs and the economy / Marian Chertow
Land use : blending smart growth with social equity and climate change mitigation / Patricia Salkin
Transportation : challenges and choices / Trip Pollard
International trade : sustainability as a multilateral, bilateral, and regional effort / Kevin C. Kennedy
Official development assistance : toward funding for sustainability / Royal C. Gardner and Ezequiel Lugo
Financing sustainable development / Smita Nakhooda, Frances Seymour, and Sabina Ahmed
Lead poisoning and pollution : opportunities for internationalized solutions / K.W. James Rochow
State governance : leadership on climate change / Kirsten H. Engel and Marc L. Miller
Public access to information, participation, and justice : forward and backward steps toward an informed and engaged citizenry / Carl Bruch, Frances Irwin, and Gary D. Bass
National governance : still stumbling toward sustainability / John C. Dernbach.
Progress toward sustainability : a report card
Agenda for a sustainable America.
Local governance and sustainability : major progress, significant challenges / Jonathan D. Weiss
Brownfields development : from individual sites to smart growth / Joel B. Eisen
Business and industry : transitioning to sustainability / Ira Robert Feldman
Higher education : more and more laboratories for inventing a sustainable future / Wynn Calder and Julian Dautremont-Smith
Kindergarten through twelfth grade education : fragmentary progress in equipping students to think and act in a challenging world / Carmela Federico and Jaimie Cloud
Religion and ethics focused on sustainability / Dieter T. Hessel
Sustainable and unsustainable developments in the U.S. energy system / Mark D. Levine and Nathaniel T. Aden
Materials : from high consumption to more sustainable resource use / Amit Kapur and Thomas E. Graedel
The importance of curbing and ending population growth to achieve sustainability / Anne H. Ehrlich and James Salzman
Poverty : greening the tax and transfer system to create more opportunities / Jonathan Barry Forman
Freshwater : sustaining use by protecting ecosystems / Robert W. Adler
Oceans and estuaries : the Ocean Commissions' unfulfilled vision / Robin Kundis Craig
Air quality : the need to replace basic technologies with cleaner alternatives / David M. Driesen
Climate change : the unmet obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions / Donald A. Brown
Biodiversity conservation : an unrealized aspiration / A. Dan Tarlock and Andrew Zabel
Sustainable forestry : moving from concept to consistent practice / Federico Cheever and Ward J. Scott
Toxic chemicals and pesticides : not yet preventing pollution / Lynn R. Goldman
Hazardous waste and superfund : few changes and little progress / Joel A. Mintz
Municipal solid waste : building stronger connections to jobs and the economy / Marian Chertow
Land use : blending smart growth with social equity and climate change mitigation / Patricia Salkin
Transportation : challenges and choices / Trip Pollard
International trade : sustainability as a multilateral, bilateral, and regional effort / Kevin C. Kennedy
Official development assistance : toward funding for sustainability / Royal C. Gardner and Ezequiel Lugo
Financing sustainable development / Smita Nakhooda, Frances Seymour, and Sabina Ahmed
Lead poisoning and pollution : opportunities for internationalized solutions / K.W. James Rochow
State governance : leadership on climate change / Kirsten H. Engel and Marc L. Miller
Public access to information, participation, and justice : forward and backward steps toward an informed and engaged citizenry / Carl Bruch, Frances Irwin, and Gary D. Bass
National governance : still stumbling toward sustainability / John C. Dernbach.
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Errata sheet inserted.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF5505 .A44 2009
Language
English
ISBN
9781585761333
1585761338
1585761338
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