Handbook of sustainability

By: Gianfranco Bologna

Published by: Editions Environment

What is Sustainability Science? This formula defines the unique laboratory of ideas, investigations and innovative theories that have been merged into a new transdisciplinary science is transforming our world view.
Sustainability is an approach radically different from what has driven the science and politics until a few years ago. It is a model of thought which seeks to incorporate contemporary civilization with the complexity of nature and offers credible idea of "development €?, As opposed to the myth of" growth €? at all costs.
To meet this challenge and provide practical solutions, scholars around the world analyze the natural processes along with the social, economic and productive, given the complex web of reciprocal relationships that characterizes the "closed system €? of our planet.
Their work renews some scientific paradigms, but also calls into question the current indiscriminate use of resources, patterns of economic exchange, the lifestyles, the organization of society and institutions, forms of governance.
The author reconstructs the meaning of the word "sustainable €? has taken in recent years, starting from ideas and concepts that have traced the story to get to new science that draw perspective. The route follows through various disciplinary issues, quotes, examples, and documented in a large mosaic that returns all the richness of the debate.
At the end of the volume, the deepening of two cases of global: climate change and the gradual impoverishment of biological diversity.

Gianfranco Bologna cultural and scientific director of WWF Italy and Secretary General of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei, the Italian section of the Club of Rome. Since 1999 he teaches at the School of Specialization in management of the natural environment and protected areas (today's degree) University of Camerino, where he teaches management of natural resources and sustainable development. He has written several books on nature and sustainable development since 1988 and is curator of the Italian edition of the famous State of the World report of the Worldwatch Institute. Non-governmental experts of the Italian Government to the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (1992) and the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (2002).