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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Sustainable Development Teaching: Ethical and Political Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman, Johan Öhman
December 18, 2020
The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching ...
Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth
1st Edition
By Dain Bolwell
September 30, 2020
Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth explores how human technologies can be managed to ensure the long-term sustainability of our species and of other life forms with which we share this world. It analyses human impact, the discourses of environmentalism and issues of ...
Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Nina Witoszek, Atle Midttun
September 30, 2020
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, ...
The Question of Limits: A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
By Christian Marouby
September 30, 2020
We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value of the natural world, the status of anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene, and the largely ethical questions of our impact on the world. While fully acknowledging these ...
Urban Social Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Shirazi, Ramin Keivani
September 30, 2020
This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban Social Sustainability provides an in-depth insight into the discourse and argues that every urban intervention has a social sustainability ...
Utopia in the Anthropocene: A Change Plan for a Sustainable and Equitable World
1st Edition
By Michael Harvey
June 30, 2020
Utopia in the Anthropocene takes a cross-disciplinary approach to analyse our current world problems, identify the key resistance to change and take the reader step by step towards a more sustainable, equitable and rewarding world. It presents paradigm-shifting models of economics, political ...
Smart Green World?: Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability
1st Edition
By Steffen Lange, Tilman Santarius
May 26, 2020
In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. At the same time, the current economic model and consumerist ...
Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
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By Will Focht, Michael A. Reiter, Paul A. Barresi, Richard C. Smardon
March 04, 2020
The goal of Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) education is to prepare students to facilitate social learning in communities that builds knowledge of, capacity for, and commitment to sustainability to facilitate the emergence of sustainable societies. The SHES approach to ...
Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future
1st Edition
By Walter R. Erdelen, Jacques G. Richardson
March 04, 2020
Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future introduces and explores systems and complexity in relation to near-synchronous world and environmental problems. These relate to but are not limited to water, biological diversity, worldwide climate change, trade and conflict, global ...
Measuring Intangible Values: Rethinking How to Evaluate Socially Beneficial Actions
1st Edition
By Marie Harder, Gemma Burford
March 04, 2020
This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the ‘success’ of social organisations, projects and activities. Whether improving a local situation, organizing a campaign around sustainability, or assessing the intangible effects of perceived social benefits, currently we have only have a ...
Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future
1st Edition
By George R. Lueddeke
March 04, 2020
Planet Earth has been here for over 4.5 billion years but in just two human generations we have managed to place our only 'home' at great risk. Many lessons from history have not yet been learned and new lessons may prove equally, if not more, difficult to take on board as we head deeper into ...
Sustainability Transitions in South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Najma Mohamed
March 04, 2020
South Africa’s transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country’s national climate change response strategy. Despite significant gains in socio-economic development since its transition to democracy,...