Sustainability A Very Short Introduction

The pursuit of sustainability is entraining such an extraordinary flourishing of hopes, ideas, inventions and scams that it surely warrants its own World Expo in the near future. Fortunately, Saleem H. Ali has already gifted us what amounts to a catalog of what that Expo should have on display. He takes us on a critical tour of expected pavilions - nature's services, circular systems, well-being metrics, tipping points, governance innovations and more. But he also introduces us to an eclectic selection of the people - scholars, activists, artists - who have helped to build those pavilions, to connect them, and so to foster today's halting but real progress toward sustainable development. A must read, and an enjoyable one. William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Research Professor, Harvard University, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences