With "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation", first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowldege ? including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field. This text is designed to introduce the reader to the essential concepts of sustainability. This subject is of vital importance seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet but is only peripherally served by existing college textbooks.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Environmental Science
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Rice University
- Provider Set:
- OpenStax CNX
- Author:
- Amid Khodadoust
- Amy Ando
- Andrew Leakey
- Angela Kent
- Cindy Klein-Banai
- David Grimley
- Dennis Ruez
- Eric Snodgrass
- Eugene Goldfarb
- George Crabtree
- Gillen Wood
- Jeffrey Brawn
- John Cuttica
- John Regalbuto
- Jonathan Tomkin
- Julie Cidell
- Krishna Reddy
- Martin Jaffe
- Michael Ward
- Riza Kizilel
- Rob Kanter
- Said Al-Hallaj
- Serap Erdal
- Sohail Murad
- Steve Altaner
- Tom Theis
- Date Added:
- 10/08/2012