The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability: Case Studies and Practical Solutions

1. Sustainability Definitions, Historical Context and Frameworks; Sandra Garren and Robert Brinkmann .- Section 1: Environment .- 2. Sustainability and Natural Landscape Stewardship: A United States Conservation Case Study; Johanna Kavorik .- 3. Policy Design for Sustainability at Multiple Scales: The Case of Transboundary Haze Pollution in Southeast Asia; Ishani Mukherjee 4. Sustainable Water Resources Management: Groundwater Depletion; Brian F. Thomas and Aimee C. Gibbons .- 5. America's Path to Drinking Water Infrastructure Inequality and Environmental Injustice: The Case of Flint, Michigan; Adrienne L. Katner et al. .- 6. Sustainable Renewable Energy: The Case of Burlington, Vermont; Sandra Garren .- 7. Greenhouse Gas Management: A Case Study of a Typical American City; Rachel M. Krause and J.C. Martel .- 8. Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China: An Unsustainable Situation in Search of a Solution; Haakon Vennemo and Kristin Aunan .- 9. Waste Management Outlook for the Middle East; Salman Zafar .- 10. The Sustainability of Vicu a Conservation in Bolivia; Melissa Grigione et al. .- 11. The Efficacy of Small Closures: A Tale of Two Marine Protected Areas in Canada; Ryan Stanley et al. .- Section 2: Equity .- 12. Urban Social Sustainability: The Case Study of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Jenni Cauvain .- 13. Methods for Integrated Sustainability Assessment: The Case of Small Holder Farming in Karnataka, South India; Sheetal Patil and Seema Purushothaman .- 14. Japanese Women and Antinuclear Activism After the Fukushima Accident; Heidi Hutner .- 15. Emerging Social Movements for Sustainability: Understanding and Scaling Up Upcycling in the United Kingdom; Kyungeun Sung, Tim Cooper, and Sarah Kettley .- 16. Urban Vulnerability of Waste Workers in Nigerian Cities: The Case of Aba, Nigeria; Thaddeus Chidi Nzeadibe and Friday Uchenna Ochege .- 17. Designing Personal Sustainability into Organizational Culture: The Case of Burning Man; Morgan C. Benton and Nicole Radziwill .- 18. Political Leadership and Sustainability in Africa: Margaret Kenyatta; Jo-Ansie van Wyk .- 19. Environmental Law; Yumiko Nakanishi .- 20. Brownfields Redevelopment: Recycling the Urban Environment; Elizabeth Strom .- 21. Methodology for Selection of Sustainability Criteria: A Case Study of Social Housing in Peru; Daniel R. Rondinel Oviedo and Christopher Scheier Barreto .- 22. Small-Scale, Sustainable Agriculture in Broward, Florida; Thelma I. Velez .- Section 3: Economy .- 23. Economic Development and Sustainability: A Case Study from Long Island, New York; Robert Brinkmann .- 24. Sustainable Business; Deborah Gallagher .- 25. Contributing to Competitiveness in Retailing by Engaging in Sustainability: The Case of Migros; Thomas Rudolph et al. .- 26. Environmental Purchasing in the City of Phoenix; Nicole Darnall et al. .- 27. The Dual Promise of Green Jobs: Sustainability and Economic Equity; Ellen Scully-Russ .- 28. Is Ecotourism Sustainable? A Case Study from Sri Lanka; Rathnayake Mudiyanselage Wasantha Rathnayake .- 29. Green Building and Sustainability: Diffusing Green Building Approaches in the United Kingdom and Germany; Kirstie O'Neill and David Gibbs .- 30. Green Universities: The Example of Western Kentucky University; Leslie North and Christian N. Ryan .- 31. Events, Festivals and Sustainability: The Woodford Folk Festival, Australia; Kirsten Holmes and Judith Mair .- 32. We'd Like Our Clothes Back Please! Partnering with Consumers to Achieve Sustainability Goals; Diane M. Phillips and Jason Keith Phillips .- 33. Green IT: Hofstra University's Information Technology Upgrades Created Unplanned Sustainable Green Benefits by Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Costs; Margaret Linehan and Catherine Fisher .- Section 4: Regional and Local Examples .- 34. Sustainability in North America: The Canadian Experience; Mark Roseland and Maria Spiliotopoulou .- 35. African Sustainability and Global Governance; Timothy M. Shaw .- 36. Urban Sus