Just Transitions : Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829585003321
• Autore: Swilling Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, USA, : United Nations University Press, 20120101; United Nations University Press
• ISBN: 92-808-7172-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.9/27091724
• Soggetti: Sustainable development - Management - Developing countries; Natural resources - Developing countries; Sustainable development - South Africa; Developing countries Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: on becoming visible -- Part I. Complexity, sustainability and transition. Ch.1. Complexity and sustainability -- Ch. 2. What is so unsustainable? -- Ch. 3. Crisis, transitions and sustainability -- Part II. Rethinking development. Ch. 4. Greening the developmental state -- Ch. 5. Rethinking urbanism -- Ch. 6. Soils, land and food security -- Part III. From resource wars to sustainable living. Ch.7. Resource wars, failed states and blood consumption: insights from Sudan -- Ch. 8. Transcending resource and energy-intensive growth: lessons from South Africa -- Ch. 9. Decoupling, urbanism and transition in Cape Town -- Ch. 10. Pioneering liveable urbanism: reflections on an invisible way.