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RECENT BOOKS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND
Limited quantities are available for purchase at the Registration Desk. These and other books are available at
http://on-climate.com/books/.
Building our Sustainable Cities
by Rita Yi Man Li
Sustainable development has become a hot topic worldwide in
recent decades. Following the Copenhagen Summit, politicians and
the general public were once again faced with the reality of
inevitable climate change. Is there anything we can do to stop global
warming? Are there any possible ways to achieve the goal of zero
carbon? What can we, as laymen in the global village, do in the
coming years so that future generations can enjoy a natural
environment similar to ours?
This book consists of three parts. The first part is an introduction
that provides a general overview of sustainable development in
China, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States of
America and Australia. The second part introduces the concept of
sustainability in the built environment. The <strong>third</strong> part of this book
focuses on sustainable land use planning in Hong Kong.
Learning Nature: How the Understanding of Nature
Enriches Education and Life
by Ruyu Hung
Learning Nature presents exciting scholarship on the exploration of
the concept of nature and its implications for education. The
author—Ruyu Hung—argues that ―nature‖ is a rich and fundamental
source of meaning to enable one to learn to live a meaningful life
and yet that what is taught about nature in many conventional
curricula is severely limited, resulting in an impoverishment of
meaning. The central aim of this book is to provide different
approaches to the understanding of nature in order to show the
fecund meanings that have rich educational significance and the
implications for pedagogy.
Interrogating the educationally meaningful conceptions of nature,
this book identifies five themes to anchor our multifarious
understandings of nature. Each theme with its implying polarities
illuminates the significance of the human conceptualisation of nature
as an on-going dynamic and dialectic process. The investigations
invite the readers to envisage and reconfigure education so as to
accommodate heterogeneous and plural views of nature and reveal
the abundance of meaning to be had in different ways of
experiencing nature in the context of one‘s unique life.
The Sustainability Practitioner’s Guide to Input-Output
Analysis
edited by Joy Murray and Richard Wood
This book provides an introduction to input-output analysis for
sustainability practitioners. It is designed for those with knowledge
about the sustainability dilemma we face, but who are unsure about
the how of measuring our impacts, tracking our progress and
informing the decisions for a sustainable future.
Input-output analysis placed in a transdisciplinary setting is a
method that captures the complexities and interdependencies of our
social, economic and environmental support systems. Examples of
the use of input-output analysis in life-cycle assessment, triple
bottom line accounting and carbon and ecological footprints are
provided along with an introduction to a range of software tools. In
academic circles research has been gathering pace on these
methods and issues over the last years. This book brings this state
of the art to the decision makers and policy shapers of today.
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