John C. Gordon

Kristiina Vogt

Toral Patel-Weynand

Maura Shelton

Daniel J Vogt

Cal Mukumoto

Asep. S. Suntana

Patricia A. Roads

Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations. This ground-breaking book examines and decodes these elements, exploring how a range of countries make decisions regarding their energy and bio-resource consumption and procurement. The authors consider how these choices impact not only the societies and environments of those countries, but the world in general. To achieve this, the authors review the merits of various sustainability and environmental metrics, and then apply these to 34 countries that are ranked low, medium or high on the human development index. The book assesses their resource capacities and the environmental impacts, both within and outside their country boundaries, from consuming food, water, and energy. The final section uses the lessons derived from the earlier analyses of resource consumption to explore the importance of geography, climates and sustainable management of forests and other natural resources for building resilient societies in the future.

Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies

Sustainability Unpacked

John Gordon

Michael Marchand

Asep Suntana

Rodney Cawston

Mia Siscawati

Daniel Vogt

John Tovey

Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir

Patricia Roads

Sustainability defines the need for any society to live within the constraints of the land's capacity to deliver all natural resources the society consumes. This book compares the general differences between Native Americans and western world view towards resources. It will provide the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a sustainability portfolio designed by indigenous peoples. This book introduces the ideas on how to link nature and society to make sustainable choices. To be sustainable, nature and its endowment needs to be linked to human behavior similar to the practices of indigenous peoples. The main goal of this book is to facilitatethinking about how to change behavior and to integrate culture intothinking and decision-processes.

Sustainable Practices of Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples

The River of Life

Kristiina Vogt

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