Routledge handbook of global sustainability governance / edited by Agni Kalfagianni, Doris Fuchs, and Anders Hayden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalfagianni, Agni, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability--Government policy.

Sustainability.

Sustainable development--Government policy.

Sustainable development.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical and transformatively aspirational view on global sustainability governance. In this landmark text, an international group of acclaimed scholars provides an overview of key analytical and normative perspectives, material and ideational structural barriers to sustainability transformation and transformative strategies. Drawing on pivotal new and contemporary research, the volume highlights aspects to be considered and blind spots to be avoided when trying to understand and implement global sustainability governance. In this context, the authors of this book debunk many myths about all-too optimistic accounts of progress towards a sustainability transition. Simultaneously, they suggest approaches that have the potential for real sustainability transformation and systemic change, while acknowledging existing hurdles. The wide-ranging chapters in the collection are organized into four key parts: Part 1: Conceptual Lenses Part 2: Ethics, Principles and Debates Part 3: Key Challenges Part 4: Transformative Approaches. This Handbook will serve as an important resource for academics and practitioners working in the fields of sustainability governance and environmental politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of contributors

Introduction: critical and transformative perspectives on global sustainability governance

PART 1 Conceptual lenses

1 Power and legitimacy

2 Environmental governance as performance

3 Engaging the everyday: sustainability as resonance

4 Materiality and nonhuman agency

5 Worlding global sustainability governance

PART 2 Ethics, principles, and debates

6 Justice

7 Representation of future generations

8 The 'good life' and Protected Needs

9 Post-Eurocentric sustainability governance: lessons from the Latin American Buen Vivir experiment

10 Responsibility

11 Religion

12 Sufficiency

PART 3 Key challenges

13 North-South inequity and global environmental governance

14 Growth and development

15 The mining dilemma

16 Financialising nature

17 Environmental countermovements: organised opposition to climate change action in the United States

18 A critique of techno-optimism: efficiency without sufficiency is lost

19 Consumer values and consumption

20 The population challenge

PART 4 Transformative approaches

21 Beyond magical thinking

22 Democracy in the Anthropocene

23 Living well within limits: the vision of consumption corridors

24 Beyond GDP: the economics of well-being

25 Beyond a-growth: sustainable zero growth

26 Work-time reduction for sustainable lifestyles

27 Decarbonisation

28 Localism, sharing, and care

Conclusion: global sustainability governance - really?

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-69129-5

1-351-69130-9

1-315-17023-X

9781315170237

OCLC:

1122681609