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A better planet : forty big ideas for a sustainable future / foreword by Ingrid C. Burke ; edited by Daniel C. Esty.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019Description: xv, 397 p. : ill. (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780300246247 : (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 23
Contents:
Foreword / Ingrid C. Burke -- Introduction / Daniel C. Esty -- Part One. Nature, land, and water -- Part Two. Innovation and technology -- Part Three. Law and policy -- Part Four. Resources, economics, and sustainable business -- Part Five. Society, equity, and process -- Epilogue : how to make big ideas work / Ingrid C. Burke and James Cameron
Summary: This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book's forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. The book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.
List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions March. 2020 | Acquisitions 2019-2020
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Loanable Book Library General Collection 304.2 EST (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000438162

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Foreword / Ingrid C. Burke -- Introduction / Daniel C. Esty -- Part One. Nature, land, and water -- Part Two. Innovation and technology -- Part Three. Law and policy -- Part Four. Resources, economics, and sustainable business -- Part Five. Society, equity, and process -- Epilogue : how to make big ideas work / Ingrid C. Burke and James Cameron

This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book's forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. The book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.

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