Envisioning Sustainabilities

Envisioning Sustainabilities
Author: Pierre McDonagh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 1443812838

This volume is a collection of essays considering the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology (both scholarly and applied), political science, and media studies. It has been carefully edited to provide the reader with a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’ in contexts as varied as urban planning, community gardens, bread-making, sustainable food movements in Italy, applied projects such as water projects in Bangladesh, and disaster studies. As such, this is a book which ultimately argues for the value of the social sciences in considering one of the more urgent and complex topics of our time – that of sustainability.

Envisioning Sustainability

Envisioning Sustainability
Author: Peter Berg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2009
Genre: Bioregionalism
ISBN: 9780979919480

Planet Drum Foundation-founder Berg provides a collection of the important essays that helped define the bioregional movement and established him as an icon in the environmental community.

Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education

Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Author: Peter Blaze Corcoran
Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Environmental education
ISBN: 9789086863037

This edited collection invites educational practitioners and theorists to speculate on - and craft visions for - the future of environmental and sustainability education. It explores what educational methods and practices might exist on the horizon, waiting for discovery and implementation. A global array of authors imagines alternative futures for the field and attempts to rethink environmental and sustainability education institutionally, intellectually, and pedagogically. These thought leaders chart how emerging modes of critical speculation might function as a means to remap and redesign the future of environmental and sustainability education today. Previous volumes within this United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development series have responded to the complexity of environmental education in our contemporary moment with concepts such as social learning, intergenerational learning, and transformative leadership for sustainable futures. 'Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education' builds on this earlier work - as well as the work of others. It seeks to foster modes of intellectual engagement with ecological futures in the Anthropocene; to develop resilient, adaptable pedagogies as a hedge against future ecological uncertainties; and to spark discussion concerning how futures thinking can generate theoretical and applied innovations within the field.

Envisioning a Sustainable Society

Envisioning a Sustainable Society
Author: Lester W. Milbrath
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1989-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438413084

The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work—irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore.

Envisioning a Sustainable Society

Envisioning a Sustainable Society
Author: Lester W. Milbrath
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791401620

The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work--irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore.

Beyond the Limits

Beyond the Limits
Author: Donella Hager Meadows
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 9780930031626

Ecological Utopias

Ecological Utopias
Author: Marius de Geus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

What, if anything, can the ecological utopias found in the history of philosophy contribute to our present quest for ecological responsibility?

Envisioning a Sustainable Development Agenda for Trade and Environment

Envisioning a Sustainable Development Agenda for Trade and Environment
Author: A. Najam
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007-07-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230605702

This book systematically explores the trade and environment interests of developing countries from a Southern perspective. The contributors write explicitly about both hopes and fears in the South. Essays are from leading experts and thought leaders from various regions of the South who work for bold new agendas and priorities for their region.

Imagining Sustainability

Imagining Sustainability
Author: Julie Cidell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317406222

Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies. This is due to the combination of growing urban populations and increased action on the part of local governments (generally attributed to national governments’ failure to act on climate change). Imagining Sustainability seeks to understand how actors in local government conceptualize sustainability and their role in producing it, and what difference that understanding makes to their physical, political, and social environments now and in the future. International comparisons can uncover new ideas and possibilities. Chicago and Melbourne are prime candidates for such a comparison: they are cities of the same age, they have similar historical trajectories as interior gateways followed by industrial growth and then deindustrialization, and they have demonstrated the same recent desire to be global champions of sustainability. Based on qualitative fieldwork in these two cities, this book uses Karen Barad’s methodology of diffraction to read these case studies through each other. This methodology helps to understand not only what differences exist between these two places, but what effects those differences have on the urban environment. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban studies, urban planning and environmental policy and governance.