Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation
- ISBN-10
- 1680921533
- ISBN-13
- 9781680921533
- Series
- Sustainability
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 644
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-23
- Authors
- Jonathan Tomkin, Tom Theis
Description
With "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation," first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowldege - including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.
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