| Description |
xiii, 401 pages, 8 unnumberd pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Reshaping environments - an opportunity for envisioning the future / Helena Bender -- Costa Rica's dry north-west: a region in transition / Blythe McLennan -- Reshaping land transport in Singapore: a policy perspective / Sun Sheng Han -- Evaluating different ways of managing forested landscapes / Kathryn Williams, Rebecca Ford, Ian Bishop and Eric Smith -- Changing the landscape management paradigm with farmers: a story of community-based resource management in the 'Heartbreak Hills', Victoria, Australia / Ruth Beilin -- Meeting development goals without blowing your carbon budget / Graham Moore -- The EGLE has landed: architecture reshaping schools for environmentally sustainable and effective learning / Dominique Hes -- Reshaping the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: progress in river basin management / Michael Stewardson and Edward Maltby -- Burning questions: researching the meaning of fire in the Australian landscape / Ruth Beilin and Blythe McLennan -- Critique, analysis and reflection in the study of reshaping environments / Anna Bailey -- Working with complex issues in group situations / Roger Hadgraft and Helena Bender -- Understanding research methodology / Kate Judith -- An interdisciplinary approach / Clinton Golding -- Conceptualising change: complexity, post-normal science, uncertainty and risk / Ruth Beilin -- Sustainability: a model for the future / Helena Bender, Kate Judith and Ruth Beilin -- Human needs and norms: some concepts for exploring sustainable human-environment relationships Kathryn Williams / Conceptualising and thinking about environmental systems / Graham Moore -- Why scale matters / Blythe McLennan and Graham Moore |
| Summary |
Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment |
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Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment. Author from University Melb |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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Case studies |
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Environmental studies |
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Human ecology |
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Natural resource management |
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Statistics |
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Sustainable development |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Sustainability and the environment. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96006038
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| Subject |
Environmental protection.
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Human ecology.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Sustainability.
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| Author |
Bender, Helena, editor
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| LC no. |
2012472617 |
| ISBN |
9781107688667 (paperback) |
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