State of the World 2014 Governing for Sustainability

Name: State of the World 2014 Governing for Sustainability
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ISBN: 9781610915410

ISBN-10: 1610915410

ISBN-13: 9781610915410

Edition: 2nd 2014

Authors: The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, Conor Seyle

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Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.'s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments' progress has been lackluster. That's not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action--on climate, species loss, inequity, and other sustainability crises--is being driven by local, people's, women's, and grassroots movements around the world, often in opposition to the agendas pursued by governments and big corporations.These diverse efforts are the subject of the latest volume in the Worldwatch Institute's highly regarded State of…

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List price: $30.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 4/29/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 319
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and the author of The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention, The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, and Ecological Literacy.