Practicing sustainability / Guruprasad Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, David Green, editors ; foreword by Michael Spence ; editorials by Klaus Schwab, Robert Rubin, and George Whitesides ; afterword by M.S. Swaminathan.

"In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the contrarians, shed light on our understanding of sustainability and...

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Other Authors: Madhavan, Guruprasad (Editor), Oakley, Barbara A., 1955- (Editor), Green, David (Social entrepreneur) (Editor), Koon, David (Editor), Low, Penny (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2013]
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Summary:"In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the contrarians, shed light on our understanding of sustainability and the role that each of us can play. Each contributor addresses what sustainability means, what is most appealing about the concept, and what they would like to change to improve the perception and practice of sustainability. What emerges from their essays is a wide spectrum of views that confirm an important insight: Sustainability is pursued in different ways not only due to different interpretations, but also because of varying incentives, trade-offs, and altruistic motives."--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 244 pages) : color illustrations.
ISBN:9781461443490
1461443490
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record and online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 15, 2013)