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Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change is the first book in a new Palgrave series on Environmental Sustainability. It takes a fresh look at the dynamic field of environmental sustainability by exploring the interconnections between climate change, water, energy, waste, land use, ecosystems, food, and transportation. It also provides an extensive summary on sustainability management, data analysis, mapping, and data sources. Brinkmann highlights how environmental sustainability challenges are distinctly different in the developed world, where sustainability is largely a choice, versus the developing world, where many struggle with basic existence due to war, migration, and water or food scarcity. He takes a broad systems and historic approach to contextualize environmental sustainability prior to the 1987 Brundtland Report and utilizes many contemporary examples throughout the text, analyzing numerous case studies from many areas of the world including China, Yemen, Malaysia, Egypt, and Florida. This book questions traditional approaches to sustainability that highlight the need for an equal balance of economic development, environmental protection, and social equality to achieve sustainability. This book focuses on a new line of thinking that places environmental sustainability as the key foundation in how to manage sustainability in a time of change. Our planet is quickly becoming environmentally unsustainable due to global consumption and unsustainable economic development and it is high time for a fresh approach. This book will be of great value to academics, practitioners, and students interested in environmental sustainability from a myriad of fields including geology, geography, biology, ecology, economics, business, sociology, anthropology, and other areas that intersect the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

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Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability

Series Editor

Robert Brinkmann

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA

The series will take advantage of the growing interest in a number of environmental issues in sustainability, particularly in those that focus on interdisciplinary approaches to solving real-world problems. Unfortunately, many of the themes of sustainability address short- and long-term survivability of our planet and there is a pressing need for access to information to those who seek to solve sustainability problems. Thus, the scope of the book series seeks to be comprehensive within an environmental sustainability framework. The topics covered in the series range from climate change to public land management. While no series can ever be truly comprehensive, the series will provide one of the most definitive surveys of knowledge in the area of environmental sustainability.

More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15680

Robert Brinkmann

Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change

Robert Brinkmann

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA

Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability

ISBN 978-3-030-28202-8 e-ISBN 978-3-030-28203-5

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28203-5

The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

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Cover illustration: john finney photography/gettyimages

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This book is dedicated to everyone who continues to believe that we can save the planet and enhance environmental sustainability through education.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the team at Palgrave Macmillan for their strong support throughout the development of this book. In addition, I would like to thank all the authors who have written so eloquently on the topic of environmental sustainability over the last half century.

Contents

Part IRoots of Sustainability as a Discipline and Methodological Considerations

Part IISustainability Surfing and Sustainability Suffering: New Ways of Understanding Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

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R. Brinkmann Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28203-5_1

1. Connections in Environmental Sustainability: Living in a Time of Rapid Environmental Change

Robert Brinkmann

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Sustainability Environmental sustainability Anthropocene Disasters Data

Sustainability is a challenging term to approach. It has come to mean so many things to so many different people. For some, it is about trying to live green. For others, it is about finding ways to measurably reduce the impact of human activity on our planet. For the last several decades, professionals in the field have used a definition based on the work of the UNs Brundtland Commission which noted that sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without harming the needs of future generations (Brundtland ). Built into this definition is the idea that the long-term sustainability of the planet is mainly dependent on the ability to allow ideas around economic development , environmental protection, and social equity to coalesce so that the world centers around sustainable activities.

These three pillars of environment , economics, and social equity have been the center of sustainability thought since the Brundtland Report was published. Many governments, businesses , schools, non-profit organizations, and individuals have worked hard to try to create sustainability within their organizations or homes using the three pillars.

How has this gone?

By many measures, not so well.

Many of the worlds natural systems are at a breaking point. While the economy in many parts of the world is doing rather well, environmental systems are failing. Some would also argue that many of the worlds social systems are undergoing stress as well, particularly in poorer regions. The idea of three equal pillars is increasingly called into question as we see increased problems with the environment . As our populations have increased, and as the standards of living are enhanced around the world, we are seeing major planetary changes unseen throughout human history (Fig. ).

Fig. 1.1

An area near Diamond Head, Hawaii . What type of changes to the landscape as a result of human activity do you think you can see in this photo?

Environmental sustainability is the idea that the environment can maintain its ability to support human life and maintain all existing ecosystems and life into the future despite resource depletion through human activity. How are we doing with maintaining environmental sustainability?

In the last decade, geologists have coined the term Anthropocene for the time period we are living in because we have fundamentally altered the planets natural systems. As we will see in upcoming chapters, we have changed most of the major earth systems, including the carbon cycle and water cycle , to the point that we are already seeing major problems, from evacuation of low-lying areas due to increased sea levels to whole cities running out of water due to overconsumption and climate change . We live in a time of environmental unsustainability.

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