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Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation

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Textbook by: Tom Theis and Jonathan Tomkin, Editors. E-mail the author

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Summary: 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.

Institution: University of Illinois

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This collection contains: Modules by: Amid Khodadoust, Amy Ando, Andrew Leakey, Angela Kent, Cindy Klein-Banai, David Grimley, Dennis Ruez, Eric Snodgrass, George Crabtree, Gillen Wood, Jeffrey Brawn, John Cuttica, John Regalbuto, Jonathan Tomkin, Julie Cidell, Krishna Reddy, Martin Jaffe, Michael Ward, Riza Kizilel, Said Al-Hallaj, Serap Erdal, Sohail Murad, Steve Altaner, Tom Theis.

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