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  • Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption

    Research and Action for Societal Transformation

    Edited by Julia Backhaus, Audley Genus, Sylvia Lorek, Edina Vadovics, Julia Wittmayer ...
    Series series Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
    This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of societal transformation, which are required to address the challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the transformation of society, the book provides:in-depth discussions at the nexus of sustainable consumption, social innovation and social transformation, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sustainable Production Consumption Systems

    Knowledge, Engagement and Practice

    Edited by Louis Lebel, Sylvia Lorek, Rajesh Daniel ...
    Sustainable Production Consumption Systems brings together a set of designed case studies intended to provide a more in-depth understanding of challenges and opportunities in bringing knowledge and actions closer together for the sustainable management of specific production and consumption systems. The case study approach enabled researchers to engage directly with some of the actors involved in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Consumption Corridors

    Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits

    by Doris Fuchs, Marlyne Sahakian, Tobias Gumbert, Antonietta Di Giulio, Michael Maniates, Sylvia Lorek, Antonia Graf ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits.Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are ... Read more

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  • The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance

    Perceptions, Actors, Innovations

    by Aino Ursula Mäki, Alice Vadrot, Andreas Goldthau, Anna Kosovac, Claudia Ringler, Daniel Pejic, Daniela Kleinschmit, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Eva Alfredsson, Javier Gonzales-Iwanciw, Jens Marquardt, Julie Duval, Lyla Mehta, Manuel Fischer, Mareike Blum, Maria Brockhaus, Markus Kröger, Maurie Cohen, Mawa Karambiri, Miranda Schreurs, Montserrat Koloffon Rosas, Nopenyo Dabla, Paúl Cisneros, Philipp Pattberg, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Sabine Reinecke, Sandra Schwindenhammer, Sherilyn MacGregor, Shiney Varghese, Sofia Cordero, Sylvia Lorek ...
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book focuses on the political tensions between the environmental objectives and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development.The collection provides an introduction to interlinkages, synergies ... Read more

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    by John Blewitt ...
    A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories of sustainable development.Fully updated, the third edition includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are explored ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Edited by Leonie Pearson, Peter Newton, Peter Roberts ...
    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development

    Contrasting Theories and Realities

    Edited by Sietze Vellema, A.H.J. Helmsing ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive development outcomes from integration of poor actors into value chains, are as yet underdeveloped. The ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development

    Needs, Justice, Limits

    by Erling Holden, Kristin Linnerud, David Banister, August Wierling, Valeria Schwanitz ...
    Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This model suggests ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • True Wealth

    How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

    by Juliet B. Schor ...
    A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously enhance our lives and protect the planet. Schor shares examples of urban farmers, DIY renovators, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Leading from the Emerging Future

    From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

    by Otto Scharmer, Katrin Kaufer ...
    The author of Theory U shares a practical guide for leaders who want to forge a path to a better future for the world.We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. In Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer show us how to lead the shift out of an economy ... Read more

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  • The Sustainability Revolution

    Portrait of a Paradigm Shift

    by Andres R. Edwards ...
    Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our time—the sustainability revolution.The Sustainability Revolution paints a picture of this largely ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $8.99 USD