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Global im-possibilities : exploring the paradoxes of just sustainabilities / edited by Phoebe Godfrey and Mary Buchanan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Just sustainabilities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development--Social aspects.
- Sustainable development.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Environmental justice.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages).
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Global impossibilities
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2021.
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Phoebe Godfrey, Mary Buchanan Part I: Promises & Deliveries
- 1. Destroy and rebuild: Considering harm, community benefits & environmental ornamentation in community development in Atlanta
- Dr. Lemir Teron, Ms. T'Shari White, Ms. Farah Nibbs, Ms. Farzaneh Khayat
- 2. The sovereignty paradox: Negotiating values amid tribal adaptation to shale oil extraction
- Jacqline Wolf Tice, David Casagrande
- 3. Activism or extractivism: Indigenous land struggles in eastern Bolivia
- Evan Shenkin
- Part II: Cities, Citizens & Systems
- 4. The bi-polar waterfront: Paradoxes of shoreline place-making in contemporary Accra and Colombo
- Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Epifania A. Amoo-Adare
- 5. Negotiations and contestations of just mobility: Rickshaws in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Md Musleh Uddin Hasan
- 6. Paradoxes of just sustainabilities in urban water sociotechnical systems: Lessons from Athens, Greece
- Marcia Rosalie Hale
- Part III: Scales of Decision-Making & Action
- 7. Resistance to restricting? The politics of cars in Copenhagen
- Kevin T. Smiley
- 8. Popular consultations and extractivism in Colombia: From local to global actions against mining and climate change
- Aracely Burgos-Ayala, Emerson Harvey Cepeda-Rodríguez
- 9. Rescaling energy governance and the democratizing potential of 'Community Choice'
- Sean Kennedy, Ph.D.
- Part IV: Re-imagining the Possible
- 10. Organic (dis)organization and transformation: Stories of resistance and return at CERES Community Environment Park
- Natalie Osborne & Deanna Grant-Smith
- 11. Just sustainability on the range: Empowering decisions at the soil surface
- Andrea and Tony Malmberg 12. Welcome to Tubman House
- Anthony Bayani Rodriguez Conclusion: Global [Im]-Possibilities for Just Sustainabilities?
- Phoebe Godfrey, Mary Buchanan
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781350236844
- 1350236845
- 9781786999511
- 178699951X
- 1786999536
- 9781786999528
- 1786999528
- 9781786999535
- Publisher Number:
- 99988291587
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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