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Record Nr.

UNINA9910508506603321

Autore

Swilling Mark

Titolo

The age of sustainabillity : just transitions in a complex world / / Mark Swilling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2019

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9780429609244

0429609248

9780429603723

042960372X

9780429057823

0429057822

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

Classificazione

NAT000000NAT010000POL028000

Disciplina

338.927

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Social aspects

Sustainability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : change in the age of sustainability -- Ukama : emerging metatheories for the twenty-first century -- Understanding our finite world -- Global crisis and transition : a long wave perspective -- Futuring, experimentation and radical incrementalism -- Ecocultural alternatives across the global South -- Developmental states and sustainability transitions -- Global energy transition, energy democracy and the commons -- Resisting transition : electromasculinity and the rise of authoritarianism -- Towards an evolutionary pedagogy of the present -- Concluding reflections of an enraged incrementalist.

Sommario/riassunto

"With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment. Shedding light on the highly complex challenge of a sustainable and just transition, this book



is essential reading for anyone concerned with establishing a more sustainable and equitable world. Ultimately, this is a book about hope, but without easy answers"--