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In January 2025, Roorda's brand new textbook will appear simultaneously in three languages: Dutch (published by Noordhoff), German (Springer) and English (Routledge).
The book introduces sustainable development to university & college students. It also offers detailed information & insights to researchers and practitioners.
The earlier editions were quoted many times in scientific publications.
In earlier years, new editions of Roorda's book were updates to previous ones, after the first edition was published in 2005.
This time, however, it took Roorda three years to completely write the book anew,
in order to match with all sensational global scientific, technological, economic, political, educational and sustainability developments over the last decades.
The new textbook is based on thorough research, as illustrated by the extensive Bibliography, with more than 800 titles.
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Two focuses in the new book. Short-term: the SDGs. Long-term: Transitions.
Are you familiar with the SDGs, the globally agreed Sustainable Development Goals? They are generally accepted and hugely important; and of course they play a major role in the new book, as the Dutch inhoudsopgave, the German Inhaltsverzeichnis and the English Table of Contents prove.
However: the SDGs are only short-term related, already ending in 2030, encouraging us to accomplish no more than systemic improvements, of at the very best: innovations; while sustainable development is long-term related by definition, requiring fundamental transitions.
> Read more about this: go to the full text of a section of the book in Dutch, German or English. Figure 6.1. The SDGs
So, besides the SDGs, the book focuses on profound systemic change, such as the global energy transition (including the EU Green Deal), and the transition to a circular economy, which is to be firmly embedded within nature as one holistic ecosystem.
Figure 10.8: The Quintuple Helix: the quadruple human world, embedded in the biological community,
together forming a holistic ecosystem, developing towards intrinsic sustainability
About the Front Covers
The covers of the Dutch and the German book show an amazing image. The English book uses a different, equally astonishing image. Both images are created by the famous Indian architect Manas Bhatia, who gave his kind permission to apply his creations for the books.
Bhatia is known, for instance, for the article posted by the newssite CNN, which wrote on 6 September 2022:
In a project titled “Symbiotic Architecture,” Bhatia imagined a future in which buildings are made from living materials. He produced images of what he called a “utopian future” in which apartments are formed inside redwood-sized trees.
He says it was inspired by Hyperion, a 380-foot-tall redwood in California thought to be the world’s tallest living tree. But he also drew on his own day-to-day work at Indian architecture firm Ant Studio, whose projects include retrofitting buildings with new facades to encourage natural ventilation and reduce energy consumption.
“The inspiration (was the idea) of a building’s ‘skin’ being organic and inspired by nature, and how evaporative cooling and transpiration takes place so that (towers can) regulate their own temperature throughout the day,” Bhatia said, adding: “If we could create building materials to be organic, and to live and grow, the building could ventilate itself through these natural processes.”
Inside Roorda's new books, Bhatia's work is applied too; Figure 4.9 is closely related to the image above.
More of the architect's work is to be found on the website of Amazing Architecture, and on his personal website.