Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change is the first book in a new Palgrave series on Environmental Sustainability. It takes a fresh look at the dynamic field of environmental sustainability by exploring the interconnections between climate change, water, energy, waste, land use, ecosystems, food, and transportation. It also provides an extensive summary on sustainability management, data analysis, mapping, and data sources. Brinkmann highlights how environmental sustainability challenges are distinctly different in the developed world, where sustainability is largely a choice, versus the developing world, where many struggle with basic existence due to war, migration, and water or food scarcity. He takes a broad systems and historic approach to contextualize environmental sustainability prior to the 1987 Brundtland Report and utilizes many contemporary examples throughout the text, analyzing numerous case studies from many areas of the world including China, Yemen, Malaysia, Egypt, and Florida. This book questions traditional approaches to sustainability that highlight the need for an equal balance of economic development, environmental protection, and social equality to achieve sustainability. This book focuses on a new line of thinking that places environmental sustainability as the key foundation in how to manage sustainability in a time of change. Our planet is quickly becoming environmentally unsustainable due to global consumption and unsustainable economic development and it is high time for a fresh approach. This book will be of great value to academics, practitioners, and students interested in environmental sustainability from a myriad of fields including geology, geography, biology, ecology, economics, business, sociology, anthropology, and other areas that intersect the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

Robert Brinkmann is Professor of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability at Hofstra University, USA. He is the series editor of a Palgrave book series on Environmental Sustainability and one of the Editors ofThe Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability.

Chapter 1. Connections in Environmental Sustainability:  Living in a Time of Rapid Environmental Change.- Part I. Roots of Sustainability as a Discipline and Methodological Considerations.- Chapter 2. Historical Considerations in Sustainability.- Chapter 3. Systems and Sustainability.- Chapter 4. Wicked Problems and Disasters.- Chapter 5. Data and Mapping for Environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 6 Managing Environmental Sustainability.- Part II.  Sustainability Surfing and Sustainability Suffering: New Ways of Understanding Sustainability in the 21st Century.- Chapter 7. Surfing Sustainability:  Understanding Environmental Sustainability in Safety.- Chapter 8. Understanding Environmental Sustainability within the Context of Poverty and Existential Threats.- Chapter 9. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Water and Energy.- Chapter 10. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Greenhouse Gas Pollution, Climate Change, and Land Use Change.- Chapter 11. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Pollution, Waste Management, and Energy.- Chapter 12. Interconnections in Environmental Sustainability:  Food, Transportation, Energy, and Ecosystems.- Chapter 13. Megaconnections in Environmental Sustainability Through the 21st Century.