{"product_id":"pragmatic-sustainability-steven-a-moore-9781138123915","title":"Pragmatic Sustainability: Dispositions for Critical Adaptation","description":"\u003cp\u003e This second edition of \u003cem\u003ePragmatic Sustainability\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a pragmatic, discursive and pluralistic approach to thinking about sustainability.. Rather than suggesting a single solution to the problem of how to live sustainably, this collection discusses broader approaches to social and environmental change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight continuing authors and seven new ones adjust their dispositions toward rapidly changing and still unsustainable conditions, forging agreements and disagreements on five overlapping themes: the \u003ci\u003eGrounds for Sustainability; \u003c\/i\u003ethe critique of \u003ci\u003eTechnological Culture; \u003c\/i\u003ethe need to conceive of \u003ci\u003eSustainability in Place; \u003c\/i\u003ein \u003ci\u003eCities\u003c\/i\u003e; finally asking how should we reimagine the fraught relationship between \u003ci\u003eCivil Society, Industry \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRegulation?\u003c\/i\u003e Editor Steven A. Moore asks how a set of ideas now more than a century old remains relevant. A partial answer can be found in reconstructing the very modern ideas confronted by those who came to call themselves Pragmatists at the beginning of the twentieth century--\u003ci\u003eevolution, ecology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003edesign. \u003c\/i\u003eMoore argues that we have yet to develop dispositions in theory and practice that critically integrate these ideas into sustainable development. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sum, this new edition provides a fresh and hopeful look at the wicked problems deliberated by almost anyone engaged in adapting to the always changing conditions of the built world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven A. Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138123919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138123915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Steven A. Moore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659234521343,"sku":"9781138123915","price":255.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef7aa5b5-f03b-434a-83d0-123ef1248e91.jpg?v=1781200548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pragmatic-sustainability-steven-a-moore-9781138123915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}