Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780367355234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Adrian Ely

Opis

The book draws on content and cases from across the ‘Pathways’ Transformative Knowledge Network; an international group of six regional hubs working on sustainability challenges in their own local or national contexts. It draws inputs from North and South, mirroring the universality of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Spis treści

SECTION 1 Introduction 1 Introduction Adrian Ely 2 The ‘Pathways’ transformative knowledge network Adrian Ely and Anabel Marin SECTION 2 Emerging themes across the transformative knowledge network 3 Transformations: theory, research and action Adrian Ely 4 Transdisciplinary methods and T-Labs as transformative spaces for innovation in social-ecological systems Laura Pereira, Per Olsson, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Olive Zgambo, Nathan Oxley, Patrick Van Zwanenberg, J Mario Siqueiros-García and Adrian Ely SECTION 3 Insights from different international contexts 5 Towards a more sustainable food system in Brighton and Hove, UK 6 Adrian Ely, Elise Wach, Rachael Taylor, Ruth Segal and Rachael Durrant 6 Bioleft: a collaborative, open source seed breeding initiative for sustainable agriculture Anabel Marin, Patrick Van Zwanenberg and Almendra Cremaschi 7 Kenya: making mobile solar energy inclusive Victoria Chengo, Kennedy Mbeva, Joanes Atela, Rob Byrne, David Ockwell, and Aschalew Tigabu 8 China: the economic shock of a green transition in Hebei Lichao Yang and Chulin Jiang 9 Wetlands under pressure: the experience of the Xochimilco T-Lab, Mexico Hallie Eakin, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Rebecca Shelton, Beatriz Ruizpalacios, David Manuel-Navarrete and J. Mario Siqueiros-García 10 Enabling transformations to sustainability: rethinking urban water management in Gurgaon, India Dinesh Abrol and Pravin Kushwaha SECTION 4 Conclusion: transformative pathways to sustainability 11 Reframing sustainability challenges Fiona Marshall, Patrick Van Zwanenberg, Hallie Eakin, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Adrian Ely, Anabel Marin, and J. Mario Siqueiros-García 12 Emerging insights and lessons for the future Adrian Ely, Anabel Marin, Fiona Marshall, Marina Apgar, Hallie Eakin, Laura Pereira, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, J Mario Siqueiros-García, Lichao Yang, Victoria Chengo, Dinesh Abrol, Pravin Kushwaha, Edward Hackett, David Manuel-Navarrete, Ritu Priya Mehrotra, Joanes Atela, Kennedy Mbeva, Joel Onyango and Per Olsson

O autorze

The Pathways Network conducts action research into transformations to sustainability in six hubs across the world. Since 2015, it has been co-led (with Anabel Marin) by the editor, Adrian Ely, a Reader in Technology and Sustainability at SPRU and the STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK.