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Fatal Consumption: Rethinking Sustainable Development

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Description for Fatal Consumption: Rethinking Sustainable Development Paperback. Taking the slogan "think globally, act locally" to heart, the contributors to this book offer both an understanding of the present and hope for a sustainable future. Editor(s): Woollard, Robert; Ostry, Aleck Samuel. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.

Why do we claim to value sustainability while acting in anunsustainable fashion? How can we reduce our consumption drasticallyand move toward a sustainable social system when our society isspecifically based on consumption? These two linked questions are atthe heart of this important book, the result of a four-yearinterdisciplinary study of British Columbia's Lower FraserBasin.

Taking the slogan "think globally, act locally" to heart,the contributors to Fatal Consumption are theoretical as wellas practical. They conceptualize the policy analysis they provide,while also proposing useful tools for those charged with makingdecisions. Though specific in focus, the analysis in FatalConsumption can be generalized to ... Read more

Fatal Consumption will appeal to urban planners, to policymakers, and to scholars and others interested in the relationshipbetween health and a sustainable society.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774807876
SKU
V9780774807876
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Robert Woollard
Robert F. Woollard, M.D. is Royal Canadian LegionProfessor and head of the Department of Family Practice in the Facultyof Medicine at UBC. He is also co-chair of the UBC Task Force onHealthy and Sustainable Communities. Aleck S. Ostry isassistant professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiologyin the Faculty of Medicine at UBC.

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