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]).
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Dalby, Susan Horton, Rianne Mahon, Diana Thomaz
December 18, 2020
This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by ...
A New World-System: From Chaos to Sustainability
1st Edition
By Donald G. Reid
November 19, 2020
A New World-System: From Chaos to Sustainability examines the present crisis in the social and ecological environment that is producing profound, potentially catastrophic challenges to the planet and humanity and outlines a process for moving forward to address these critical issues. This book is ...
Metagovernance for Sustainability: A Framework for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
1st Edition
By Louis Meuleman
March 04, 2020
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 are universally applicable in all 193 UN Member States and connect the big challenges of our time, such as hunger and poverty, climate change, health in an urbanised environment, sustainable ...
Poverty and Climate Change: Restoring a Global Biogeochemical Equilibrium
1st Edition
By Fitzroy B. Beckford
March 04, 2020
Most, if not all of the global biogeochemical cycles on the earth have been broken or are at dangerous tipping points. These broken cycles have expressed themselves in various forms as soil degradation and depletion, ocean acidification, global warming and climate change. The best proposal for an ...
Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: A Capabilities Approach
1st Edition
By Mikateko Mathebula
December 12, 2019
This book demonstrates how the theoretical concepts of the capabilities approach can be applied in the context of engineering education, and how this could be used to add nuance to our understanding of the contribution higher education can make to human flourishing. In demonstrating the usefulness ...
The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World
1st Edition
By Mark Swilling
November 21, 2019
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment. Every day we are bombarded by reports about ...
Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice: Rethinking Parks and People
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharlene Mollett, Thembela Kepe
October 17, 2019
In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps. On the one side, norms of land justice and their advocates dictate that people’s rights to tenure security are tantamount and even sometimes key to successful conservation practice. On the other hand,...
Sustainable Pathways for our Cities and Regions: Planning within Planetary Boundaries
1st Edition
By Barbara Norman
July 12, 2019
In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge. Focus has historically been on people, place and the challenges and opportunities of living with global change, and academic attention has largely been on sustainability science or ...
Measuring Welfare beyond Economics: The genuine progress of Hong Kong and Singapore
1st Edition
By Claudio O. Delang, Yi Hang Yu
April 16, 2019
Dissatisfaction with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of a country’s development or a population’s wellbeing led to the development of the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GPI is an aggregate index of over 20 economic, social and environmental indicators, and accounts for both ...
Sustainable Development Policy: A European Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael von Hauff, Claudia Kuhnke
January 17, 2019
Sustainable Development Policy: A European Perspective uses a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives to explore the ways in which sustainable infrastructures can play a more prominent and effective role in international development policy. Building on a solid introduction to sustainability and ...
Educating for Sustainability in Japan: Fostering resilient communities after the triple disaster
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Singer, Tracey Gannon, Fumiko Noguchi, Yoko Mochizuki
August 23, 2018
Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches are holistic and interdisciplinary, values-driven, participatory, multi-method, locally relevant and emphasize critical thinking and problem-solving. This book explains how ESD approaches work in the Japanese context; their effects on different...
Sustainability and Wellbeing: Human-Scale Development in Practice
1st Edition
By Mònica Guillen-Royo
April 25, 2018
The idea that we can meet human needs and simultaneously conserve and even enhance the natural environment is an attractive one. Since the Brundtland report popularised a definition of sustainable development based on the concept of needs, there has been a widespread belief that it should be ...