Sustainability for the Forgotten

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Opening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 amongst impoverished villages of northeast Brazil, struggling to bring sustenance, sustainability, and hope to these disregarded and willfully ignored communities, this book asks a broad and far-reaching question that challenges the contemporary sustainability movement: What about sustainability for the forgotten?
 
Sustainability for the Forgotten is an incendiary book that confronts the history, policies, and practices of sustainability. It interrogates the usefulness of current sustainability approaches for the poorest of the poor, the chronic underclass, victims of natural disasters, refugees, the oppressed, and asks, how can we do better? With examples that range from the coffeelands of El Salvador to the coal country of American Appalachia, from the streets of Detroit to refugee camps in Greece and the upscale metro centers of the affluent, sustainability is examined with a critical eye and with an emphasis on insuring that the forgotten are heard.
 
At once well-researched and passionate, wide-ranging and sharply focused, Sustainability for the Forgotten is unlike any other book on the sustainability movement. Written with a distinctive voice that is reasoned, unflinching, and often poetic, the book challenges the sustainability movement to follow “a just and necessary path.” The result is a provocative statement on the future of sustainability and a call to action that is ultimately hopeful.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Utah Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 22, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1647691672
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1647691677
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,838,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,565 in Economic Policy #1,583 in Sociology of Class #1,591 in Economic Policy & Development (Books)
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