SUSTAINABILITY: IF IT’S EVERYTHING, IS IT NOTHING? By Heather M. Farley and Zachary A. Smith is in press with Routledge UK and should be available later this year.
In addition to describing how sustainability has been defined by disciplines in the natural, physical and social sciences the book examines how the institutions of government, the academy and the private sector have appropriated the word for their own ends. The result has been what we have labeled faux-sustainability. Most of what is now called sustainable is not. We conclude with what we think is necessary for a new understanding and definition of sustainability which we (appropriately if not modestly) call neo-sustainability. Keep an eye oout for it. -- Zachary A. Smith, Ph.D. Regents' Professor Natural Resources and Environmental Policy President, Society for Human Ecology Box 15036 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011 [email protected] web page: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~zas/ fax 928-523-6777 phone 928-523-7020 "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts" William Bruce Cameron CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files for previous e-mail messages attached to it may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or return e-mail and delete the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner. Thank you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
