Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and
social justice, and making science and technology work for the
poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges
of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected
change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised,
fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing
international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail.
Why is this, and what can be done about it? How might we understand
and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the
challenges of water scarcity in dryland India? In the context of
climate change, how might seed systems help African farmers meet
their needs, and how might appropriate energy strategies be
developed?
This book lays out a new 'pathways approach' to address
sustainability challenges such as these in today's dynamic world.
Through an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, uncertainty,
differing narratives and the values-based aims of sustainability,
the pathways approach allows us to see how some approaches are
dominant, even though they do not produce the desired results, and
how to create successful alternative 'pathways' of responding to
the challenges we face. As well as offering new ways of thinking
about sustainability, the book also suggests a series of practical
ways forward - in tools and methods, forms of political engagement,
and styles of knowledge-making and communication. Throughout the
book, the practicalities of the pathways approach are illustrated
using four case studies: water in dryland India, agricultural seeds
in Africa, responses to epidemic disease and energy systems/climate
change. Published in association with the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC).
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