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The article reviews the book "The Sustainable World," edited by Carlos A. Brebbia.

Reviews the book "Towards a Sustainable Urban Environment: The Rio de Janeiro Study," edited by Alcira Kreimer.

Reviews the book "Issues in Agricultural Development: Sustainability and Cooperation," edited by Margot Bellamy and Bruce Greenshields.

The article reviews the book "Climate Change and Sustainanble Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production. (Edited papers from the EurSAFE 2012 Conference Held in Tubingen, Germany 30 May to 2 June 2012)" edited by T. Potthast and S. Meisch.

The article reviews the book "Human Perspectives on Sustainable Future No: 99," edited by A. L. Rauma, S. Pöllänen and P. Seitamaa-Hakkarainen.

The article reviews the book "Sustainable Development Concepts," by John Pezzey.

At the turn of the millennium, the world's political leadership adopted sustainable development as a leading model for societal development. However, the terms "sustainable development", "sustainability" and "sustainable" are sometimes over- and misused despite wide consensus about the concept's meaning among sustainability scholars and practitioners. While the concept allows various sustainability views to co-exist, random conceptualizations which do not respect the fundamental sustainability principles undermine the concept's objective to steer action. This lack of understanding of sustainability arguably inhibits its practical realization and a proper understanding of sustainability is urgently needed. In this paper we aim to contribute to a better understanding of sustainability by adopting a bird's eye perspective. We review the rich contemporary literature, with a specific focus on the terminology, genesis, fundamental principles, mainstream views of sustainability, and several governing aspects. Further, using the evolving body of sustainability literature, the paper provides arguments to combat common misconceptions of sustainability. OPEN ACCESS INSET: Box 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Role of International Cooperation: Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Held at Tokyo, Japan, 22-29 August 1991," edited by G.H. Peters and B.F. Stanton.

Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review and analysis of "The Breakthrough Challenge: 10 Ways to Connect Today's Profits With Tomorrow's Bottom Line". Design/methodology/approach -- This article consists of a literature review of a recently published book. Findings -- The volume puts forth the idea that the corporate world is in the process of adopting a new measure of bottom-line profitability around environmental, social and economic responsibilities. It proposes that for change needed in the rising anthropocene, the private sector must lead. Originality/value -- The review analyzes the argument and raises substantive issues around the authors' value proposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Managing Sustainable Development in South Africa," edited by Patrick Fitzgerald, Anne McLennan and Barry Munslow.

Reviews the book "Land Resource Economics and Sustainable Development: Economic Policies and the Common Good," by G. Cornelis van Kooten.

The article reviews the book "Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability," edited by Joel Darmstadter.

The article reviews the book "The Economics of Sustainable Development," edited by Sisay Asefa.

The article reviews the book "Corporate Environmental Strategy and Comparative Advantage," edited by Sanjay Sharma and J. Alberto Aragón-Correa.

Reviews the book 'Partnerships for Protection: New Strategies for Planning and Management for Protected Areas,' edited by Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley.

This article presents a review of the book "Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development," edited by Robin Mansell and Uta Wehn.

Reviews the book 'Sustainable Development in Central Asia,' edited by Shirin Akiner, Sander Tideman and John Hay.

This article provides a detailed view on the various challenges and opportunities for environmental development by considering theoretical and applied aspects of sustainability science, policy implications, and management practices in several countries around the world. It synthesizes current knowledge, provides perspectives, and describes diverse approaches and innovations aimed at dealing with the environmental crisis, which is primarily caused by anthropogenic activities. The article is based on and includes data described in the book "sustainability perspectives: science, policy and practice," edited by Peter A. Khaiter and Marina G. Erechtchoukova. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Transport, the Environment and Sustainable Development," edited by David Banister and Kenneth Button.

Sustainability is a "contested" concept introduced at the beginning of the 18th century in German forestry circles concerned about sustainable harvests and rebranded in 1987 as "sustainable development" by the Brundtland Report, which defined it as harmonious economic, social, and ecological development that enhances both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations. However, after more than three decades of sustainable development, humanity is on an unsustainable path featuring rampant ecosystem damage, rising social inequality, and harmful cultural homogenization. This paper is a book review of Fred P. Gale's Political Economy of Sustainability, a book published in 2018 by Edward Elgar Publishers. The book advances the innovative idea that the current lack of progress in implementation of the sustainable development goals is due to the narrow understanding by individuals, firms, states, and political parties of the values underlying sustainability. The book thus starts a much-needed conversation about economic values, a conversation ousted from the neo-classical economics discipline in the late 19th century by the marginalist thinkers who wanted to make it a positive science. The book identifies four elemental economic values—exchange value, labor value, use value, and function value—and argues that basing our socio-economic and political development on only one type of value with the exclusion of the others has led to the current dangerously unsustainable path humankind is on. Achieving sustainability value requires a balanced integration of all four types of values in all deliberations about socio-economic activities. How can this be accomplished? The author proposes a pragmatic solution in the form of a "tetravaluation" process, a dialogue involving multiple value holders able to reflexively negotiate and compromise until the pluralistic sustainability value is discovered and accepted by all the parties. The book challenges the unsustainable functioning of existing economic, political, and cultural institutions and invites a rethinking of their governance, which should deliberately embrace the pluralistic value of sustainability. The tetravaluation process has the potential to generate sustainable choices and inform better policy decisions able to protect at the same time the proponents of exchange value (consumers), the promoters of labor value (workers, producers), the beneficiaries of use value (communities), and the holder of functional values (the environment). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patrick McCully. New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. ill and 416 pp., diags., notes, apps., and index. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 1856499014), $25.00 paper (ISBN 1856499022). Reviewed by Patrick H. Buckley, Department of Environmental Studies, Policy, Planning, Education, and Geography, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Local Forest Management - The Impacts of Devolution Policies," edited by David Edmunds and Eva Wollenberg.

Reviews the book "Sustainability in Action: Sectoral and Regional Case Studies," edited by Jorg Kohn, John Gowdy, and Jan van der Straaten.

The article reviews the book "People, Land and Community: Collected E. F. Schumacher Society Lectures," edited by Hildegarde Hannum.

Reviews the book "Evolutionary Dynamics and Sustainable Development: A Systems Approach," by Norman Clark, Francisco Perez-Trejo and Peter Allen.

The article reviews the book "Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies in Perspective," by Elinor Ostrom, Larry Schroeder and Susan Wynne.

Reviews the book "Sustainable Development: Economics and Environment in the Third World," by David Pearce, Edward Barbier, and Anil Markandya.

Reviews the book "Grameen Bank: Performance and Sustainability," by Shahidir R. Khandker, Baqui Khalily and Zahed Khan.

Reviews the book "Hijacking Environmentalism: Corporate Responses to Sustainable Development," edited by Richard Welford.

The article reviews the book "Common Property Resources: Ecology and Community-Based Sustainable Development," edited by Fikret Berkes.

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Reviews the book "Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius and Compassion," edited by Sissel Waage.

Reviews the book "Sustainable Development and the Future of Cities," edited by Bernd Hamm and Padurang K. Muttagi.

Reviews the book "Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development," edited by Wendy Harcourt.

Reviews the book "Transition Strategies Towards the 21st Century," by Ignacy Sachs.

Reviews the book "Managing Sustainable Development in South Africa," edited by P. Fitzgerald, A. McLennan, and B. Munslow.