Transitions to Sustainability

✍ Scribed by François Mancebo, Ignacy Sachs (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life? Meeting this challenge requires an inclusive approach of sustainability. It is a matter of designing a new social contract: Sustainability requires more than developing the right markets, institutions and metrics, it requires social momentum. To do so, many issues need a clear and complete answer: How to link social justice with sustainability policies? What governance tools to do so? What linkage between one decision-making level and the other? These are major issues to design sound transitions to sustainability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Entering the Anthropocene: The Twofold Challenge of Climate Change and Poverty Eradication....Pages 7-18
Towards a New Development Planning: The Pre-eminence of Political Choices....Pages 19-37
Economic Democracy: Meeting Some Management Challenges: Changing Scenarios in Brazil....Pages 39-53
Norms, Rules and Sustainable Planning: Who Said What About Norms....Pages 55-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Rousseau, Rio and the Green Economy....Pages 65-76
Issue Linkage and the Prospects for SDGs’ Contribution to Sustainability....Pages 77-82
Putting the Individual at the Center of Development: Indicators of Well-Being for a New Social Contract....Pages 83-103
Insights for a Better Future in an Unfair World: Combining Social Justice with Sustainability....Pages 105-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
The Legitimation of Global Energy Governance: A Normative Exploration....Pages 119-130
From Government to Multi-stakeholder Governance for Sustainable Mobility....Pages 131-140
Territorial Resources and Sustainability: Analyzing Development in a “Post-Fordist” Scenario....Pages 141-157
Back Matter....Pages 159-162

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; International Relations; Development Economics; Climate Change Management and Policy