Global im-possibilities : exploring the paradoxes of just sustainabilities / edited by Phoebe Godfrey and Mary Buchanan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buchanan, Mary, editor.

Godfrey, Phoebe, editor.

Series:

Just sustainabilities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Social aspects.

Sustainable development.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Environmental justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( xii, 238 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2021.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"At a time when environmental and social stakes are at their highest - with rising crises and contradictions at the nexus of a building sense of environmental and social collapse - there are no easy solutions. Global Im-Possibilities explores just what can be done around the world to ameliorate this dynamic. Using a range of essays and a multitude of case studies, this book explores what new lessons can be learned from examining the challenges and impediments to achieving just sustainabilities on the levels of policy, planning, and practice, and considers how these challenges and impediments can be addressed by individuals and/or governments. Taking a nuanced approach to provide an intersectional analysis of a particular issue relating to the ideals for achieving sustainability, this book asserts that that it is only in recognizing such complexity that we can hope to achieve just sustainabilities."

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Global im-possibilities : exploring the paradoxes of just sustainabilities

ISBN:

9781350236844

1350236845

9781786999535

1786999536

9781786999511

178699951X

OCLC:

1241539841