Sustainability Management: Lessons from and for New York City, America, and the Planet

摘要

Steven Cohen Columbia University Press 256 pp. $35 (2011) Some 25 years after the concept of sustainability emerged, policy solutions to implementing it remain elusive. Cohen, executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute in New York, argues that we now have enough successful examples to draw up blueprints for keeping the planet viable and economies afloat. Through case studies such as New York's community gardens, Cohen looks at sustainable practice in business, energy, water and food supply, and the technical, financial and political challenges of transmuting ideas into action.