Sustainability principles and practice robertson pdf free download

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The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping the student with both conceptual understanding and technical skills for the workplace. Each chapter explores one aspect of the field, first introducing concepts and presenting issues, then supplying tools for working toward solutions. Techniques for management and measurement as well as case studies from around the world are provided. Chapters include further reading and discussion questions. It describes the many facets that collectively determine the degree to which a system, at any scale, is sustainable, and explains how they interact.

It is a valuable guide and reference for anyone wishing to get involved in the practice of sustainability. Sustainability champions practice systems thinking, connecting the dots between green buildings, sustainable cities, corporate CSR, and all the global sustainability megaforces besieging us. This book is their indispensable primer and wonderfully practical handbook to ensure they are effective change agents.

It is a coherent encyclopedia of sustainability issues, with answers. Until now it has been challenging to find a textbook suitable for introductory classes on sustainability. Using a systems approach, Professor Robertson presents a comprehensive treatment of sustainability fundamentals, organized in a logical and very understandable manner. It also makes clear the integrative nature of the sustainability paradigm, and the challenges it presents to modern societies.

While covering a broad and diverse range of topics, principles and concepts, the author — Margaret Robertson who coordinates the Sustainability Coordinator Degree Program at Lane Community College at Eugene, Oregon — succeeds in distilling the essentials that students and an increasing number of professionally and otherwise interested readers need to know about sustainable development.

Excellent primer on sustainability By Secluded Path This is an excellent book on sustainability. It is very comprehensive, incredibly well informed, thoroughly researched, well written, easy to understand and to the point. It is astonishing how much information the author has managed to pack in pages in such a nice and understandable way. I would say it is the best primer on sustainability out there right now.

There are a few minor forgivable glitches, like allusions to poor and underdeveloped "countries in the southern Hemisphere", despite the southern Hemisphere is actually half of the planet with many different countries not all of them poor , problems and regulations.

Also, places in the US are referred to as "city, state", but places outside the US are just given as the country, as in "hot places such as Egypt or Phoenix, Arizona" pag , which could be changed to a more egalitarian and international format such as "place, country".

Of course these minor issues do not diminish the value and importance of this great book but perhaps are worth a thought for the second edition. Great text for college level courses By Anon I teach sustainability at PSU, reviewed this text last fall and was impressed by the detail, conciseness, and up-to-date information provide.

I use it now in my courses and students remark that this is a book they'll actually keep. I highly recommend this text. By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies.

To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Skip to content Home Search results for: sustainability in practice. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping the student with both conceptual understanding and technical skills for the workplace. Each chapter explores one aspect of the field, first introducing concepts and presenting issues, then supplying tools for working toward solutions.

Techniques for management and measurement as well as case studies from around the world are provided. Chapters include further reading and discussion questions. The book is supported by a companion website with links, detailed reading lists, glossary, and additional case studies, together with projects, research problems, and group activities, all of which focus on real-world problem solving of sustainability issues.

The textbook is designed to be used by undergraduate college and university students in sustainability degree programs and other programs in which sustainability is taught. It covers policy and trends on global, European and UK levelsaffecting businesses; compliance requirements for organisations -including some sector-specific areas; and best practice, with goodand bad case studies showing the business benefits of incorporatingsustainable practice into day-to-day activities.

Sunil Shah — Technical Director and Head of Sustainability,Jacobs Sunil has over eight years consultancy experience within the builtenvironment, reviewing lifecycle environmental and social impactsfrom facilities. Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food, water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world.

Written by leading experts, Pursuing Sustainability shows how more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives can help you achieve your sustainability objectives.

It stresses the need for understanding how capital assets are linked to sustainability goals through the complex adaptive dynamics of social-environmental systems, how committed people can use governance processes to alter those dynamics, and how successful interventions can be shaped through collaborations among researchers and practitioners on the ground. The ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and an invaluable resource for anyone working in this fast-growing field, Pursuing Sustainability also features case studies, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading.

Provides a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action Draws on the latest cutting-edge science and practices Serves as the ideal companion text to more narrowly focused courses Utilizes interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives Illustrates concepts with a core set of case studies used throughout the book Written by world authorities on sustainability An online illustration package is available to professors.

Building better organisations, with a clear sense of purpose, is a common challenge faced by many entrepreneurs and executives in industry. A fully integrated corporate sustainability strategy can help organisations to better manage risks, to win business opportunities and to ultimately strengthen reputation.