Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
About the Book Series
This series uniquely brings together original and cutting-edge research on Sustainable Development. The books in this series tackle difficult and important issues in Sustainable Development including values and ethics; sustainability in higher education; climate compatible development; resilience; capitalism and de-growth; sustainable urban development; gender and participation; and well-being.
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, the series promotes interdisciplinary research for an international readership. The series was recommended in the Guardian’s suggested reads for Development and Environment.
The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from young authors. To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Grace Harrison ([email protected]).
How to Achieve Sustainable Development: Local Actions for Global Change
1st Edition
By Samuel T. Ledermann
December 31, 2025
Aimed at practitioners and students in environmental studies, development, economics and geography, this book systematically investigates how sustainable development can be achieved at the local and global level. Instead of problems, it focuses on practical solutions to take yourself, in your ...
Innovation Strategies and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Blueprint for Sustainable Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Amit Singh Khokhar, Punita Duhan, Anshu Lochab
November 20, 2025
This book explores how innovation can serve as a powerful catalyst for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). As the world grapples with challenges such as climate change, inequality, health crises, and education gaps, this book presents innovation not only as a ...
Circular Economy Solutions for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Nowicka
August 28, 2025
This edited collection offers fresh perspectives on sustainable development and social impact using a circular economy framework. Against the backdrop of escalating environmental challenges such as resource depletion and climate change, transitioning from a linear to a circular economy is a key ...
Inside the Sustainable Development Goals: From Fighting Poverty to Saving the World
1st Edition
By Adele Orosz
July 07, 2025
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came with bold promises: ending poverty, saving the planet, and making this world a better place by 2030. But being in the second halftime, there is too little progress and too many setbacks. Drawing on the expertise of an author who has been actively ...
Good Education in a Fragile World: The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Bainbridge, Nicola Kemp
May 06, 2025
This edited collection aims to provoke discussion around the most important question for contemporary higher education – what kind of education (in terms of purpose, pedagogy and policy) is needed to restore the health and wellbeing of the planet and ourselves now and for generations to come? The ...
A Nordic Smart Sustainable City: Lessons from Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Maria Sageidet, Daniela Müller-Eie, Kristiane M.F. Lindland
April 03, 2025
This book critically explores research and development on the smart sustainable city, emphasizing the tension and association between smartness and sustainability, both as a concept and as a phenomenon in a Nordic context. Worldwide, increasing urbanization and its related challenges, along with ...
Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic
1st Edition
By Dorothea Wehrmann, Michał Łuszczuk, Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak, Jacqueline Götze, Arne Riedel
February 07, 2025
Focusing on cities in the European Arctic, this book consolidates research on sustainable development, local and urban governance, and transnational cooperation in the region. It examines to what extent there is transnational cooperation between urban areas in remote locations and how it can be ...
Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence: Critical Reflections on the Uncertain Future of Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Donais, Alistair D. Edgar, Kirsten Van Houten
December 18, 2024
This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way point of the Sustainable Development Goals implementation period, what impact Goal 16 has made, or may yet make, toward reducing violence in ‘all its ...
Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy
1st Edition
By Donald G. Reid
October 09, 2024
Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author’s previous work, this book discusses whether social progress is linear ...
Implementing Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sylvie Albert, Jeremy Millard, Manish Pandey
September 16, 2024
This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve sustainability, cities choose their own goals and develop the necessary governance and resourcing ...
Greening Higher Education in Europe: Institutional Transitions to Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Magdalena Popowska
August 16, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the advances that have taken place in European higher education institutions (HEIs) over the last 20 years in response to the challenges of sustainable development. In recent years, there has been a visible shift toward sustainable development, ...
Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruno Carrasco, Hanif A. Rahemtulla, Rainer Rohdewohld
May 27, 2024
Since its adoption in 2015, the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development has shaped not only international development cooperation but also the design of national trajectories for social and economic development. In tandem with other global agendas adopted that year (such as the Paris Agreement on ...