The Age of Sustainability Just Transitions in a Complex World

• Main Author: Swilling, Mark
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2019; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Africa; Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology; Anthropology; BRT System; Civil engineering, surveying and building; Climate change; Development; Development economics and emerging economies; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecocultural; ecocultural assemblages; Ecology; Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Energy Relate GHG Emission; Energy technology and engineering; Energy Transitions; Environment & Theory; Environmental Anthropology; Environmental policy and protocols; Environmentalist thought and ideology; Equality; Equitable Society; Ethics and moral philosophy; Female Homicide Rate; Futuring; global crisis; Incrementalism; Interdisciplinary studies; International Resource Panel; Metatheoretical Framework; Natural history; Nature; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Political Science; Politics and government; Pollution and threats to the environment; Public Policy; radical incrementalism; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; relational post-capitalism; SDGs; Social impact of environmental issues; Social justice; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sustainability; sustainability-oriented developmental states; Sustainable Development; Sustainable development > Social aspects; Sustainable Development Goals; Sustainable Transitions; Tamil Nadu; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The environment; Topics in philosophy; transformation; Urban Living Labs; Urban Transitions; Young Men; South African Woman Experience; Mineral Energy Complex; IPBES; Urban Living Labs; futuring; Tamil Nadu; Metatheoretical Framework; relational post-capitalism; Development; Young Men; Promote System Innovation; Urban Poor; sustainable transitions; Sustainable Development Goals; Deep Transition; Non-equilibrium Economics; Anticipatory Thinking; Africa; radical incrementalism; Female Homicide Rate; equitable society; ecocultural; transformation; global crisis; BRT System; DS Literature; ecocultural assemblages; Socio-technical Transitions; Urban Transitions; sustainable development; International Resource Panel; sustainability-oriented developmental states; Energy Future; Kindle Location; Home Owners Association; energy transitions; Incrementalism; SDGs; UK Government Office; Energy Relate GHG Emission; White Monopoly Capital; Complex Integral Realism
• ISBN: 9780429609244; 0429609248; 0367178168; 9780367178161; 036717815X; 9780367178154; 042960372X; 0429057822; 9780367538224; 9780429603723; 9780429598203; 0367538229; 0429598203; 9780429057823
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429057823

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. Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting evidence that deeper transitions are underway that suggest we may be entering another period of great transformation equal in significance to the agricultural revolution some 13,000 years ago or the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This book helps readers make sense of our global crisis and the dynamics of transition that could result in a shift from the industrial epoch that we live in now to a more sustainable and equitable age. The global renewable energy transition that is already underway holds the key to the wider just transition. However, the evolutionary potential of the present also manifests in the mushrooming of ecocultures, new urban visions, sustainability-oriented developmental states and new ways of learning and researching. 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.