Bringing Sustainability to the Ground Level: Competing Demands in the Yellowstone River Valley

by Susan J Gilbertz, Damon M Hall

Overview

With the Yellowstone River Valley of Montana as its setting, this book introduces readers to sustainability issues, theory, and science.

Sustainability offers a vision for business and society that benefits Earth. Yet sustainability is often taught in abstract and disconnected ways.

This book addresses business profitability, physical environment processes, wildlife, public policies, and American Indian rights. It stresses practical understandings of sustainability via detailed attention to the people of the valley.

The case sets the stage for data gathering, analyses, and decision making. Readers will recognize similar concerns in other watersheds and understand sustainability anew.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781637421475
Publisher:	Business Expert Press
Publication date:	01/20/2022
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Susan J. Gilbertz, PhD, is professor of geography and acting associate dean of the College of Business, Montana State University Billings.

Damon M. Hall, PhD, is assistant professor of sustainability science in the School of Natural Resources and Biomedical, Biological & Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri.

Editorial Reviews

Gilbertz and Hall bring a powerfully interdisciplinary perspective to the persistently thorny issue of sustainability. This action-oriented primer offers practical wisdom for anyone seeking to both understand and facilitate sustainability. It challenges taken-for-granted assumptions by providing a fresh and accessible overview of crucial sustainability research. The approachable writing style ensures a book that will immediately reward its readers, while also beckoning them to probe particular segments more deeply for insights into challenges they face.--Tarla Rai Peterson, PhD, Professor, Department of Communication, The University of Texas at El Paso, Author of Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development and Environmental Conflict Management

Gilbertz and Hall offer an engagingly written tour de force. The book is well-researched and rich in local voices. l have worked in the Yellowstone area, and studied sustainability, and came away with fresh insights about the dizzying array of issues, actors, and land uses in the watershed. They get 'place' right and avoid being parochial, by connecting local/regional phenomena to larger principles and extra-local forces.--Richard C. Stedman, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University

Sustainability only makes real sense, for students, researchers, decision-makers and communities, if it is grounded in place. By exploring the complex, iconic, and critically important Yellowstone River through the lens of thick sustainability, Bringing Sustainability to the Ground Level brings the precepts of sustainability alive. Gilbertz and Hall listen to both the land and its people and do what other more abstract treatments of sustainability cannot; they show how sustainability matters for local communities and environments.--Paul Robbins, PhD, Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin

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