Envisioning Sustainabilities
Envisioning Sustainabilities

Author: Pierre McDonagh

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1443812838

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This volume is a collection of essays considering the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology (both scholarly and applied), political science, and media studies. It has been carefully edited to provide the reader with a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’ in contexts as varied as urban planning, community gardens, bread-making, sustainable food movements in Italy, applied projects such as water projects in Bangladesh, and disaster studies. As such, this is a book which ultimately argues for the value of the social sciences in considering one of the more urgent and complex topics of our time – that of sustainability.

Envisioning Sustainability
Envisioning Sustainability

Author: Peter Berg

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780979919480

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Planet Drum Foundation-founder Berg provides a collection of the important essays that helped define the bioregional movement and established him as an icon in the environmental community.

Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education

Author: Peter Blaze Corcoran

Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789086863037

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This edited collection invites educational practitioners and theorists to speculate on - and craft visions for - the future of environmental and sustainability education. It explores what educational methods and practices might exist on the horizon, waiting for discovery and implementation. A global array of authors imagines alternative futures for the field and attempts to rethink environmental and sustainability education institutionally, intellectually, and pedagogically. These thought leaders chart how emerging modes of critical speculation might function as a means to remap and redesign the future of environmental and sustainability education today. Previous volumes within this United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development series have responded to the complexity of environmental education in our contemporary moment with concepts such as social learning, intergenerational learning, and transformative leadership for sustainable futures. 'Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education' builds on this earlier work - as well as the work of others. It seeks to foster modes of intellectual engagement with ecological futures in the Anthropocene; to develop resilient, adaptable pedagogies as a hedge against future ecological uncertainties; and to spark discussion concerning how futures thinking can generate theoretical and applied innovations within the field.

Envisioning a Sustainable Society
Envisioning a Sustainable Society

Author: Lester W. Milbrath

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1989-11-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1438413084

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The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work—irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore.

Envisioning a Sustainable Society
Envisioning a Sustainable Society

Author: Lester W. Milbrath

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780791401620

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The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work--irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore.

Ecological Utopias
Ecological Utopias

Author: Marius de Geus

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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What, if anything, can the ecological utopias found in the history of philosophy contribute to our present quest for ecological responsibility?

Envisioning a Sustainable Development Agenda for Trade and Environment
Envisioning a Sustainable Development Agenda for Trade and Environment

Author: A. Najam

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-07-23

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0230605702

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This book systematically explores the trade and environment interests of developing countries from a Southern perspective. The contributors write explicitly about both hopes and fears in the South. Essays are from leading experts and thought leaders from various regions of the South who work for bold new agendas and priorities for their region.

Imagining Sustainability
Imagining Sustainability

Author: Julie Cidell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1317406222

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Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies. This is due to the combination of growing urban populations and increased action on the part of local governments (generally attributed to national governments’ failure to act on climate change). Imagining Sustainability seeks to understand how actors in local government conceptualize sustainability and their role in producing it, and what difference that understanding makes to their physical, political, and social environments now and in the future. International comparisons can uncover new ideas and possibilities. Chicago and Melbourne are prime candidates for such a comparison: they are cities of the same age, they have similar historical trajectories as interior gateways followed by industrial growth and then deindustrialization, and they have demonstrated the same recent desire to be global champions of sustainability. Based on qualitative fieldwork in these two cities, this book uses Karen Barad’s methodology of diffraction to read these case studies through each other. This methodology helps to understand not only what differences exist between these two places, but what effects those differences have on the urban environment. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban studies, urban planning and environmental policy and governance.