Sustainability for the Forgotten Machlis Hardback MP–UTA Univ of Utah Press

Sustainability for the ForgottenAuthor(s): Gary E. Machlis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Utah Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: University of Utah Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781647691660, 978-1647691660\nSynopsis\nOpening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 amongst impoverished villages of northeast Brazil, struggling to bring sustenance, sustainability, and hope to these disregarded and willfully ignored communities, this book asks a broad and far-reaching question that challenges the contemporary sustainability movement: What about sustainability for the forgotten?\nSustainability for the Forgotten is an incendiary book that confronts the history, policies, and practices of sustainability. It interrogates the usefulness of current sustainability approaches for the poorest of the poor, the chronic underclass, victims of natural disasters, refugees, the oppressed, and asks, how can we do better? With examples that range from the coffeeland.