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

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 e...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Points of departure -- 1 Introduction: change in the age of sustainability -- 2 Ukama: emerging metatheories for the twenty-first century -- Part II Rethinking global transitions -- 3 Understanding our finite world: resource flows of late modernity -- 4 Global crisis and transition: a long-wave perspective -- 5 Towards radical incrementalism -- 6 Evolutionary potential of the present: why ecocultures matter -- Part III Making and resisting sustainability transitions -- 7 Developmental states and sustainability transitions -- 8 Global energy transition, energy democracy, and the commons -- 9 Resisting transition: authoritarianism, energy dominance and electro-masculinity -- Part IV Transdisciplinary knowing -- 10 Towards an evolutionary pedagogy of the present -- 11 Conclusion: reflections of an enraged incrementalist -- Index