The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability

The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 9781786430106
ISBN-13 : 178643010X
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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability written by Fausto O. Sarmiento and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from top geographers, this Companion frames sustainability as exemplar of transdisciplinary science (critical geography) while improving future scenarios, debating perspectives between rich North/poor South, modern urban/backwards rural, and everything in between. The Companion has five sections that carry the reader from foundational considerations to integrative trends, to resources use and accommodation, to examples highlighting non-traditional pathways, to a postscript about cooperation of the industrialized Earth and a prognosis of the road ahead for the new geographies of sustainability.


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