"Environmental Change and Sustainability" ed. by Steven Silvern and Stephen Young

This book contributes to the study and search for sustainable responses to global environmental change. The authors of this volume explore environmental change in different places around the world and the diverse responses to such changes.

The chapters demonstrate the need for place-specific sustainable development; the authors suggest the need to see sustainable responses to environmental change as a negotiated outcome between various social actors living and working in diverse spatial, environmental and socio-economic contexts.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Physical Dimension
1 Environmental Change and Geomorphic Response in Humid Tropical Mountains
2 Conservation and Sustainability of Mexican Caribbean Coral Reefs and the Threats of a Human-Induced Phase-Shift
3 Coping Mechanisms of Plants to Metal Contaminated Soil
4 Harnessing Earth Observation and Satellite Information for Monitoring Desertification, Drought and Agricultural Activities in Developing Countries
Section 2 Management, Policy and Concepts
5 The Way We Think Shapes Our Future: On the Importance of Fruitful Concepts, Well-Founded Attitudes, and Powerful Rhetoric
6 Punctuations and Displacements in Policy Discourse: The Climate Change Issue in Germany 2007-2010
7 What Are the Roles of National and International Institutions to Overcome Barriers in Diffusing Clean Energy Technologies in Asia?: Matching Barriers in Technology Diffusion with the Roles of Institutions
8 Policy Arrangement for Waste Management in East Africa's Urban Centres
Section 3 Community Engagement
9 Climate Change and Food Security
10 Disaster Risk Management and Social Impact Assessment: Understanding Preparedness, Response and Recovery in Community Projects
11 Different Farming Methods - But No Solution to Improve Rural Sustainability and to Save Australia's Family Farm