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Sustainability

A Comprehensive Foundation
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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 knowledge – 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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Tom Theis and Jonathan Tomkin
Publish Date
2012
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Undergraduate
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Adjunct Faculty FDU, Sessional Instructor University of the Fraser Valley
Carlos Leon Guevara, Fairleigh Dickinson University
In summary, this is an excellent textbook which can be adapted to be used in Canada. As pointed out previously, the use of this textbook in a Canadian institution would require the discussion of Canadian issues. For example, the textbook des...„
Reviewed on 6/20/2016
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Nancy Elliot, Thompson Rivers University - Open Learning
• Module 2 focuses on the history of the American conservation movement. As sustainability is a global context with roots abroad, then it would be appropriate to have a more indepth discussion about 1) global conservation history 2) Canadian...„
Reviewed on 10/15/2015
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Joshua Labove, Simon Fraser University
Canadian undergraduate students really respond to Canadian examples. I have often ‘translated’ case studies featuring a US company to a similar Canadian firm and find students appreciate the connection to things and places they are familiar...„
Reviewed on 8/19/2014

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