Sustainability, Growth, and Globalization

A Social Science Perspective (Hc)

130 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Over the past decade the notion of sustainability has emerged as a precept thathas been applied to government, commerce, the environment and technology.This volume will discuss how sustainability is reflected in economics, politicalscience and geography through the lens of socio-economic change and globalizationthrough theoretical and real world perspectives.Using the Costa Rican Cloud Forest community of Monteverde readers will be able to understand how the notionof sustainability has been applied in a community context whose experiences have global implications.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sozialforschung und -statistik
• ISBN: 9781623962487
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2013
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Information Age Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: James E. Davis, Richard A. Diem