Part 1: History and Evolution of the Concept of Sustainable Development 1. Introduction: History and evolution of the concept Part 2: Institutional Dimensions of Sustainable Development 2. Does illegality enable or undermine the sustainability of the globalising economy? 3. Global Change, Islands and Sustainable Development: Islands of Sustainability or Analogues of the Challenge of Sustainable Development? 4. ‘Uncertainty’ in the professionalization of sustainable development - The case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5. Population Health, a Fundamental Marker of Sustainable Development 6. Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges of a critical pedagogy Part 3: Environmental Dimensions Of Sustainable Development 7. Biodiversity and SustainableDevelopment 8. Water and Sustainable Development 9. Sustainable Architecture10. Sustainable Design: Concepts, methods and practices11. Is managing ecosystem services necessary and sufficient to ensure sustainable development?12. Conservation, Sustainability and Economic GrowthPart 4: Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development13. Sustainable Development: Joining Sustainability and Environmental Justice14. Indigenous Perspectives: Non-Anthropocentric Sustainable Development and the Right to Self-Determination15. The Politics of Sustainable Consumption16. Advances in Sustainable Tourism Development17. Food and Sustainable DevelopmentPart 5: Economic Dimensions Of Sustainable Development 18. Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development: Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature19. Sustainable development and the economic crisis under austerity: the experience of the United Kingdom19. Indicators for Sustainable Development21. Sustainable Business: A Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility Policies and Practices22. Urban Transport and Sustainable Development23. Chinese Sustainability in Transition: Which direction to take? Part 6: Sustainable Development – Future Challenges24. Agroecology as post-development discourse and practice25. The social and political dimensions of sustainable development in climate change26. Sustainable Development or the Creeping Incubation of Disaster?27.Women's 'right to sustainable development': integrating religion and a rights-based approach 28. From Sustainable Development to Governance for Sustainability

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