Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change

Robert Brinkmann is Professor of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability at Hofstra University, USA. He is the series editor of a Palgrave book series on Environmental Sustainability and one of the Editors of The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability.

• Chapter 1. Connections in Environmental Sustainability:  Living in a Time of Rapid Environmental Change.- Part I. Roots of Sustainability as a Discipline and Methodological Considerations.- Chapter 2. Historical Considerations in Sustainability.- Chapter 3. Systems and Sustainability.- Chapter 4. Wicked Problems and Disasters.- Chapter 5. Data and Mapping for Environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 6 Managing Environmental Sustainability.- Part II.  Sustainability Surfing and Sustainability Suffering: New Ways of Understanding Sustainability in the 21st Century.- Chapter 7. Surfing Sustainability:  Understanding Environmental Sustainability in Safety.- Chapter 8. Understanding Environmental Sustainability within the Context of Poverty and Existential Threats.- Chapter 9. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Water and Energy.- Chapter 10. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Greenhouse Gas Pollution, Climate Change, and Land Use Change.- Chapter 11. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Pollution, Waste Management, and Energy.- Chapter 12. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Food, Transportation, Energy, and Ecosystems.- Chapter 13. Megaconnections in Environmental Sustainability Through the 21st Century.