Sustainable Solutions: Problem Solving for Current and Future Generations($145.99Value)

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There has been a recent proliferation in the number of undergraduate and graduate programs in sustainability-related areas, but the number of textbooks that can serve these new curricula is extremely limited. Sustainable Solutions: Problems for Solving Future Generations fills that void by offering a problem-solving and solutions-based approach to teaching sustainability. The book is ideal for undergraduates and entering graduate students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds that have had some exposure to environmental issues, who are now ready to access this content within an analytical and solutions-based context. A wonderful combination of history, policy, science and - perhaps most important in these troubling times - a message of hope. Readers will come away not only with optimism for the future but with recipes and a roadmap describing how to both make and reach a better tomorrow. - Dr. Mark J. Plotkin, ethnobotanist, author and Co-Founder & President of the Amazon Conservation Team As a member of Generation Z, I am scared, concerned, angry for the future we will be living in. I've encountered many doomsday-like books that simply listed daunting facts and elicited fear, but Sustainable Solutions is the first resource that helped me grapple with my eco-anxiety. It offers tangible solution methods and lexicons for sustainable problem solving. The environmental crisis is daunting, but Niesenbaum expertly breaks it down into comprehensive approaches befitting a wide range of readers from college students to professionals in the field. Sustainable Solutions offers both breadth and depth in understanding and combating contemporary problems. This made me realize that there are, in fact, sustainable solutions for the bleak future. It instilled hope. Isabel H. '24 Georgetown University Offers students opportunities to make interdisciplinary connections and see how things like individual and institutional behaviors, novel collaborations, innovation and entrepreneurship, new technologies, and policy decisions can be used to achieve sustainable solutions Offers students opportunities to make interdisciplinary connections and see how things like individual and institutional behaviors, novel collaborations, innovation and entrepreneurship, new technologies, and policy decisions can be used to achieve sustainable solutions Dr. Richard A. Niesenbaum is a Professor of Biology at Muhlenberg College where he serves as the Director of the Sustainability Studies Program, and co-directs the Office of Campus Sustainability. He served as Chair of The Biology Department, one of the largest programs at the College, for six years. A prolific researcher and teacher, Rich has published dozens of scholarly articles in the areas of ecology, environmental and science education, and sustainable development; and has mentored over 60 undergraduate research students who have gone on to have successful careers in the sciences and related fields. Rich has been consistently recognized as an innovative teacher and was one of the founders of Muhlenberg's Faculty Center for Teaching. Follow Rich on Twitter at @SusSolutions for updates and the latest sustainability news. Dr. Richard A. Niesenbaum is a Professor of Biology at Muhlenberg College where he serves as the Director of the Sustainability Studies Program, and co-directs the Office of Campus Sustainability. He served as Chair of The Biology Department, one of the largest programs at the College, for six years. A prolific researcher and teacher, Rich has published dozens of scholarly articles in the areas of ecology, environmental and science education, and sustainable development; and has mentored over 60 undergraduate research students who have gone on to have successful careers in the sciences and related fields. Rich has been consistently recognized as an innovative teacher and was one of the founders of Muhlenberg's Faculty Center for Teaching. Follow Rich on Twitter at @SusSolutions for updates and the latest sustainability news.