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Ecological Limits of Development - Living with the Sustainable Development Goals (Hardcover)
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Ecological Limits of Development - Living with the Sustainable Development Goals (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
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Embracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume
uses the technical tools from ecological economics to recast the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Ecological Livelihood Goals
- policy agendas and trajectories that seek to reconcile the social
and spatial mobility and liberty of individuals, with both material
security and ecological integrity. Since the 1970s, mainstream
approaches to sustainable development have sought to reconcile
ecological constraints with modernization through much vaunted and
seldom demonstrated strategies of 'decoupling' and
'dematerialization'. In this context, the UN SDGs have become the
orchestrating drivers of sustainability governance. However,
biophysical limits are not so easily sidestepped. Building on an
ecological- economic critique of mainstream economics and a
historical- sociological understanding of state formation, this
book explores the implications of ecological limits for modern
progressive politics. Each chapter outlines leverage points for
municipal engagement in local and regional contexts. Systems theory
and community development perspectives are used to explore under-
appreciated avenues for the kind of social and cultural change that
would be necessary for any accommodation between modernity and
ecological limits. Drawing on ideas from H.T. Odum, Herman Daly,
Zigmunt Bauman, and many others, this book provides guiding
research for a convergence between North and South that is
bottom-up, household-centred, and predicated on a re- emerging
domain of Livelihood. In each chapter, the authors provide
recommendations for reconfiguring the UN's SDGs as Ecological
Livelihood Goals - a framework for sustainable development in an
era of limits. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of ecological economics, socio- ecological systems,
political economy, international and community development, global
governance, and sustainable development.
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