Routledge Studies in Sustainability
About the Book Series
Sustainability has become one of the most pressing social, environmental, economic, cultural and political issues of our times. Yet the meaning of ‘sustainability’ remains elusive.
This series provides original insights from across the social sciences and humanities on the meaning and practice of sustainability. It offers both theoretical and practical analysis of ‘sustainability’, including social sustainability, sustainable consumption, democratic sustainability and sustainable behaviour.
These interdisciplinary books give students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners the latest thinking from international authors. This thought-provoking series draws on and is relevant to those working in a wide-range of disciplines, including environment, development, sociology, politics, philosophy, business and marketing, media, geography, and anthropology.
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Sustainability Perception Indicators: Theory and Practice of Perception Indicators in Sustainability
1st Edition
By Stephen Morse
April 06, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the background, practice, potential and challenges associated with developing and using perceptual indicators for assessing sustainability. Sustainability indicators (SIs) are usually described and portrayed as quantitative metrics that rest above the ...
Managing Marine Plastic Pollution in Norway: Sustainable Circular Economy Solutions for Fisheries and Aquaculture
1st Edition
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By Hans Jakob Walnum, Megan Palmer-Abbs, Paritosh C. Deshpande
February 02, 2026
Based on the collaborative, interdisciplinary research project Shift-Plastics this book establish sustainable circular value chains for managing plastics in the fisheries and aquaculture industries, which are significant causes of ocean plastic pollution. Focused on reducing plastic production and ...
Events of Art and Education in Post-climate Times
1st Edition
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By Carl Anders Säfström, Glenn Loughran
July 18, 2025
This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education. While both fields are often connected through disciplinary dialogues, climate change prompts a greater need to unite artists and educators around common environmental problems and goals. ...
Smart Cities to Smart Societies: Moving Beyond Technology
1st Edition
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By Esmat Zaidan, Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Elie Azar
May 28, 2025
This book explores the governance of smart cities from a holistic approach, arguing that the creation of smart cities must consider the specific circumstances of each country to improve the preservation, revitalisation, liveability, and sustainability of urban areas. The recent push for smart ...
Mediating Sustainability in the Consumer Society
1st Edition
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By Astrid Skjerven, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg, Liv Merete Nielsen, Dagny Stuedahl
December 30, 2024
This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, an effective tool for political authorities and business enterprises to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services. In this era of ecological and societal crises fuelled by increasing ...
Critical Sustainability Sciences: Intercultural and Emancipatory Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Stephan Rist, Patrick Bottazzi, Johanna Jacobi
December 18, 2024
This book explores Critical Sustainability Sciences, a new field of scientific inquiry into sustainability issues. It builds on a highly novel integration of elements from relational ontologies, critical theory, political ecology, and intercultural philosophy in support of emancipatory perspectives...
Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region: Social and Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Viktor Pál, Iris Borowy
November 28, 2024
This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region, where impressive economic growth has led to significant increases in production, consumption and concomitant waste production. This ...
Sustainable Living at the Centre for Alternative Technology: Radical Ideas and Practical Solutions
1st Edition
By Stephen Jacobs
October 09, 2024
This book presents a detailed exploration into the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an enterprise concerned with finding and communicating sustainable ways of living, established in Wales in 1973. Playing a central role in the global green network, this study examines CAT’s history and ...
Reimagining Labor for a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
By Alison E. Vogelaar, Poulomi Dasgupta
October 08, 2024
This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism. Reimagining Labor for a Sustainable Future is guided by the assertion that new systems are always preceded by new ...
Rural Governance in the UK: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society
1st Edition
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By Adrienne Attorp, Sean Heron, Ruth McAreavey
August 26, 2024
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of rural society in a post-Brexit UK by examining the emergence of new environmental and rural policies and the implications of this transition for rural communities. Through the Common Agricultural Policy, Common Fisheries Policy, the Birds and ...
Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls
1st Edition
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By Chiara Certomà, Fabio Iapaolo, Federico Martellozzo
August 01, 2024
This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability. Amid escalating environmental crises, some of which are now irreversible, there is a noticeable commitment within both international and domestic policy agendas to employ digital technologies in pursuit of ...
Rethinking the Concept of Waste and Mass Consumption: Preserving Resources through Reuse, Repair and Recycling
1st Edition
By Richard Waite
July 30, 2024
This book presents hard facts, drawn from extensive research, to highlight our unsustainable consumption of the Earth’s resources and the limitations of the UK’s current management of waste and recycling. Setting out a bleak picture of a world in which we are literally consuming our planet, the ...