Dynamic Sustainabilities Technology, Environment, Social Justice

• Main Authors: Leach, Melissa, Stirling, Andrew Charles, Scoones, Ian
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2010; Taylor and Francis; Earthscan; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: adaptive; Adaptive Governance; Agro Ecosystems Analysis; Applied physics; approach; Armutsbekämpfung; avian; Avian Influenza; Business; Business & Economics; Civil Society; Development; Development studies; Dryland India; Earth sciences; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecology; Economic development; Economic development > Environmental aspects; Empowering Designs; Energy Policy; Energy Sustainability; Energy Systems; Environmental justice; Environmental protection; fevers; Geophysics; Global; Gm Crop; Gm Food; Gm1 Gm2 Gm3; governance; Governance - Politics & International Relations; haemorrhagic; Haemorrhagic Fevers; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza; incomplete; influenza; Innovation; Interdisciplinary studies; International law; knowledge; Knowledge management; Law; Mathematics and Science; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Nature; Natürliche Ressourcen; Nonfiction; Outbreak Narrative; Participatory Rural Appraisal; pathways; Pathways Approach; Physics; Politics & International Relations; Politics and government; Poverty; Public international law; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Reflexive Governance; Risk, Science & Technology; Social Ecological Technological Systems; Social justice; Society and Social Sciences; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Soziopolitischer Wandel; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Technological change; Technologische Entwicklung; Umweltpolitik; Umweltschutz; Verhältnis Ökonomie - Ökologie; Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers; Welt; influenza; Dryland India; Energy Sustainability; Avian Influenza; Media Studies Commentators; approach; Haemorrhagic Fevers; Appraisal Approaches; avian; adaptive; incomplete; Civil Society; Outbreak Narrative; Gm1 Gm2 Gm3; NGO Response; Adaptive Governance; knowledge; Participatory Rural Appraisal; Reflexive Governance; Pathways Approach; Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers; Long Run Shifts; Gm Food; pathways; Empowering Designs; Social Ecological Technological Systems; Energy Policy; Citizen Mobilization; haemorrhagic; Agro Ecosystems Analysis; Gm Crop; Energy Systems; fevers; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza; governance
• ISBN: 1849710937; 9781849710923; 1849710929; 9781849710930; 1849775060; 1136541624; 1136541667; 9781136541667; 9781136541674; 9781849775069; 1136541675; 9781136541629
• DOI: 10.4324/9781849775069

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, and what can be done about it? How might we understand and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water scarcity in dryland India? In the context of climate change, how might seed systems help African farmers meet their needs, and how might appropriate energy strategies be developed? This book lays out a new 'pathways approach' to address sustainability challenges such as these in today's dynamic world. Through an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, uncertainty, differing narratives and the values-based aims of sustainability, the pathways approach allows us to see how some approaches are dominant, even though they do not produce the desired results, and how to create successful alternative 'pathways' of responding to the challenges we face. As well as offering new ways of thinking about sustainability, the book also suggests a series of practical ways forward - in tools and methods, forms of political engagement, and styles of knowledge-making and communication. Throughout the book, the practicalities of the pathways approach are illustrated using four case studies: water in dryland India, agricultural seeds in Africa, responses to epidemic disease and energy systems/climate change. Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)