2. MacDonald, Mary (1998) Agendas for Sustainability:
Environment and Development into the twenty-first
century. Routledge: SEI Global Environment and
Development Series.
3.
4. Gill, Sucha Sing etal
(editors) Economic and
Environmental
Sustainability of the
Asian Region. New
Delhi: India 2010.
5. The articles are organized under
six major sub themes:
issues in sustainability of Asian agriculture
ecological concerns in theory and practice
core themes in economic development
resource management and policy alternatives
discrimination and socio-economic equity in
development
peasant distress and sustainability of the cotton
economy
6. Ling, Ooi Giok (2005) Sustianability and Cities: Concept
and Assessment. Singapore: Institute of Public Studies.
7. Lee, Yok-shin F. and So, Alvin Y (editors) Asia’s
Environmental Movements” Comparative Perspectives.
Armonk, New York: An East Gate Book. 1999
8.
Pittel, Karen (2002)
Sustainability and
Endogenous Growth: New
Horizons in Environmental
Economics. Great Britain:
MPG Books Ltd.
9. Kenny, Michael and
Meadowcraft, James
(editors) Planning
Sustainability. London:
Routledge. 1999
10. Fahy, Frances and Rau,
Henrike (editors) Methods
of Sustainability Research
in the Social Sciences.
London: Sage. 2013
11. Sustainability research in the social sciences
Concepts, methodologies and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
who decides what counts as sustianble?
How do we know if a new waste management policy or an
initiative to encourage walking and cycling yield ‘sustainable
outcomes’?
What time frame is need to assess the results of a policy that
claims to enhance sustainability?
Who are the ‘winners’ and who are the ‘losers’ of sustainability
initiatives and policies, both now and in the future.
12. Jordan, Andre and Adger,
W Neil (editors)
Governing Sustainability.
United Kingdom:
Cambridge University
Press. 2009
13. This book starts from the belief that the crisis of
unsustainability is, first and foremost, a crisis of
governance. Governance, however is a multidimensional
and highly contested term within academia. If we zoom
out and explore what is or not being done actually to
govern societies in ways that facilitate rather than
undermine sustainability it is abundantly clear that the
governance of sustainable development is likely to be
hugely complicated and politically contested
undertaking.
14. Mazmanian, Daniel and
Kraft Michael E.
(editors0 Toward
Sustainable
Communities. Transition
and Transformations in
environmental Policy.
United States:
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
15. Three decades/ epochs of the environmental movement
regulatory for environmental protection 1970-1990
efficiency-based regulatory reform and flexibility 1980-
1990s
toward sustainable communities 1990s-on
16. Carew-Reid, Jeremy (editor) Strategies for Sustainability
Asia. IUCN the world Conservation Union and Earthscan
Publications Ltd. UK: 1997
17. Select from Asia
Bangladesh
Malaysia
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Sri Lanka
18. Keating, Micahel (1994) The Earth Summit’s Agenda for
Change: a plain language version of agenda 21 and the
other Rio agreements. Manila: Philippine Council for
Sustainable Development.
19. Philippine Council for sustainable Development
supported by 4 committees with respective sub-committees
committee on social and economic dimensions
committee on management and conservation of
resources
committee on strengthening the role of major groups
committee on the means of implementation
20. Thiele, Leslie Paul (2013) sustainability: key concepts.
United Kingdom: Polity Press.
21. Sustainability has traditionally been described as
standing on the three pillars of society, ecology and
economy or alternatively as grounded on the “triple
bottom line of people, planet and profit… by insisting on
cultural creativity as a fourth component of
sustainability, we underline the fact that our practices,
relationships and institutions have to initiate and
respond to change if they are to endure for long.
Sustainability demands imagination and innovation.
Editor's Notes
MacDonald, Mary (1998) Agendas for Sustainability: Environment and Development into the twenty-first century. Routledge: SEI Global Environment and Development Series.
The global assembly of women and the environment
Youth 92: the world Youth Preparatory Forum for UNCED
Youth Action Guide on Sustainable Development
Voice of the Eagle: The Final Warning message of the Indigenous People of Mother Earth
Changing Course: a global business perspective on Development and Environment
Keeping in view the aforementioned issues, a three day international conference (14-16 November 2008) was held at Punjabi University, Patiala and was organized by both the Centre for South West Asia Study and Department of Eocnomics of the University in Collaboration with Association of Asia Scholars (AAS, New Delhi). The present collection of select articles is from the papers presented and discussed at the conference.
Conceptions of sustainability and urban sustainable development
In the discussion which follows, the aim is to set cities and ubranisation right in the centre of the debate concerning sustainability and beyond this, sustainable development. The focus is on urbanized areas, their populations, societies and economies to understand the implications of urbanization for sustainability and sustainable development. Hence, the research and understanding of the implications of sustainable development is first discussed with a view to then consider in turn, the challenges facing cities and the bid to enable them to develop in a sustainable way.
In a nutshell, the advent of Asia’s environmental movements are manifest or latent alternative modes of expression and political mobilization for the working class, political parties as well as others traditionally found in the opposition and that the environmental conditions in much of Asia have now reached crisis proportions (Eder 1996, Howard 1993)
Based on the dissertation “endogenous Growth and Sustainable Development at Chemnitz University of Technology in December 2000. The discussion on economic growth and environmental problems is closely related to the concept of sustainable development. Especially in the wake of the ‘Brundtland report’ (WCED, 1987) the term has become a buzzword in politics as well as among academics. Consequently sustainable development has become a kind of ‘motherhood and apple-pie concept’ – something everybody approves of, but everybody has a different recipe for.
This book explores the relationship between on one of the most important innovations in the recent political discourse – environmental sustainability and an idea that has slipped form public attention in recent years – planning. The principal aim underlying planning sustainability is to encourage advocates of environmental politics to consider whether their arguments may gain in analytical precision and normative power if ‘planning’ in all its different senses – were more central to their thinking. At present, one can discern a reluctance not just to utilize the conceptual vocabulary of planning, but more generally to consider the state is a conceptual and normative terrain of particular significance in the analysis of environmental politics.
Past developments and current trends in sustainability research in the social sciences
sociology
geography
political science
inter- and transdisciplinary efforts
Conference in Norwich in June 2005
School of environmental sciences @ university of east Anglia, UK
This book addresses all of these questions concerning sustainability head on by reviewing and assessing environmental policy successes and failures over the last three decades, primarily in the United States.
The book deals at length with the various meanings of sustainability and its application in recent years at the local and regional level. Using six case studies of specific policy arenas… within three overlapping but nonetheless distinct epochs.
The series devoted to an analysis of lessons learned in multi-sectoral strategies at national, provincial and local levels. Each volume consists of a status report that summarizes the status of strategies in the region, a synthesis of case studies and individual case studies of selected strategies.
Common format
introduction and summary
scope and objectives
relationship to development planning
strategy development
implementation and results
lessons learned
chronology
Keating, Micahel (1994) The Earth Summit’s Agenda for Change: a plain language version of agenda 21 and the other Rio agreements. Manila: Philippine Council for Sustainable Development.
A working definition
Sustainability has been called “one of the least meaningful and most overused words in the English language”