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Sustainability and Sustainable Development: An Introduction
1538135361 pdf The challenge in teaching an introductory course on sustainability is there are many ways to teach it, and many issues to cover. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals offer a cohesive and interconnected set of topics to help address this problem indeed the SDGs are now the guiding framework for planning and implementing sustainability through 2030. They are the focus of international development efforts, and the lingua franca of sustainability as a field of study, the international consensus on what is sustainability? As such, the UN SDGs present an ideal framework for an introductory level textbook because taken together, they integrate the Three Esenvironment, economic development, and equitythat are the core definition of sustainability. Read more