The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World

ISBN-13: 9780367178161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 338 str.

Mark Swilling

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.