Intrinsic sustainable development epistemes, science, business and sustainability - Birkin, Frank (World Scientific, 2012)
Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century. Human technological capability and needs mean that nature is and will be challenged and damaged in many ways. Whilst many social and technological innovations are being made to improve our survival prospects, they are likely to be insufficient to avoid continued social and ecological stress and the prospect of global tension if significant changes do not come about. The ideas in this book offer a new solution to sustainable development problems. They are concerned not with what we know but how we know, or rather how we order knowled
Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Approach; Chapter 1 Just Business; Attitudes; Origins; Survival; Just Business; Chapter 2 Natural Momentum; Relations; Business Relations; Memories; The Best of Times; Chapter 3 Accounting Constructions; Day 1 -- Representations; Day 2 -- Order; Day 3 -- Knowledge; Departing; Chapter 4 Open Societies; Place of Departure; Things to Know; Flight KL0897: Towards an Economic Ecology; Beijing: Opening Societies; Science in Ancient China; Flight KL0898: Openness & Death; PART II: Modern Times; Chapter 5 Passive Nature; A Cold Start