Product Description: Despite the challenges, broad-based sustainable development is achievable. This popular textbook presents a holistic approach, going beyond the narrow goal of economic growth to include the full range of social, cultural, environmental and political factors necessary to achieve sustainable development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The world's environmental future will be determined in significant part by what happens in the rapidly industrializing and urban economies of Asia. The sheer scale of urban population and industrial growth in Asia ― from Indonesia to China ― and the energy- and materials-intensive character of the development process, constitutes a dark shadow over the region's, and indeed the world's, environment...read more

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