Sustainability: A History

by Jeremy L. Caradonna

Book Overview

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming to have come out of nowhere to dominate the discussion-from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199372403
• ISBN13: 9780199372409
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"