Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of sustainability

This book responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement.

Author: Paul James
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/19/2014
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781138025738

About the Author

Paul James　is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He was Director of the UN Global Compact Cities Programme from 2007 till 2014.