Mark Swilling

The Age of Sustainability (eBook, PDF)

Just Transitions in a Complex World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429609244
• Artikelnr.: 58101713

Autorenporträt

Mark Swilling is Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where he is the Co-Director of the Stellenbosch Centre for Complex Systems in Transition.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Points of Departure 1. Introduction - Change in the Age of
Sustainability 2. Ukama: emerging metatheories for the twenty-first century
PART II Rethinking Global Transitions 3. Understanding our finite world 4.
Global crisis and transition: a long wave perspective 5. Futuring,
experimentation and radical incrementalism 6. Evolutionary Potential of the
Present: Why Ecocultures Matter PART III Making and Resisting
Sustainability Transitions 7. Developmental states and sustainability
transitions 8. Global energy transition, energy democracy and the commons
9. Resisting Transition: ElectroMasculinity and the rise of
Authoritarianism PART IV Transdisciplinary Knowing 10. Towards an
evolutionary pedagogy of the present 11. Concluding reflections of an
enraged incrementalist