Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability

Sustainability : a new historiography / Jeremy L. Caradonna -- What is sustainable? : some views from highlands Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Understanding sustainability through history : resources and complexity / Joseph A. Tainter -- The ancient Maya : sustainability and collapse? / B.L. Turner II -- Sustaining what? : scarcity, growth, and the natural order in the discourse on sustainability, 1650-1900 / Gareth Dale -- Eternal forest, sustainable use : the making of the term "Nachhaltig" in 17th and 18th-century Germany forestry / Ulrich Grober -- The Industrial Revolution : social costs and social change / Emma Griffin -- Islam and sustainability : the norms and the hindrances / Tarik Masud Quadir -- The us environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s : building frameworks of sustainability / Erik W. Johnson and Pierce Greenberg -- Sustainable development and the United Nations / Iris Borowy -- The growth paradigm : history, hegemony, and the contested making of economic growthmanship / Matthias Schmelzer -- A basis for systemic sustainability measurement : an update / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse -- Sustainability and the reframing of the world city / Stephen Zavestoski -- Sustainable transportation : from feet to wheels and machines and back to feet / Preston L. Schiller -- From hydrology to hydrosociality : historiography of waters in India / Jenia Mukherjee -- Sustainable architecture : a short history / Vandana Bawega -- Sustainability studies in higher education / Teresa Sabol Spezio -- Climate change and its histories / Hervé Le Treut and Claire Weill -- The problem of economic growth / Richard Heinberg -- From (strong) sustainability to degrowth : a philosophical and historical reconstruction / Barbara Muraca and Ralf Doring -- Sustainability beyond growth : toward an ethics of flourishing / John R. Ehrenfeld -- Business, sustainability, and the bottom of the pyramid / Ana Maria Peredo -- At the crossroads : sustainability and the twilight of the modern world / John A. Robinson and David Maggs -- Rethinking the history of agriculture with sustainability in mind / Jeremy L. Caradonna -- The gene revolution and the future of agriculture / Thierry Vrain