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Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits
explores how to enhance peoples' chances to live a good life in a
world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar
recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary
boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication
of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the
good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten
the good life for all. The remedy, says the book's seven
international authors, lies with the concept of consumption
corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and
deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are
invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by
social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist
restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In
this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal
needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample
precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are
equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains
where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This
book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the
social sciences and humanities, and environmental and
sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the
general public. The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367748746, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits
explores how to enhance peoples' chances to live a good life in a
world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar
recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary
boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication
of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the
good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten
the good life for all. The remedy, says the book's seven
international authors, lies with the concept of consumption
corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and
deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are
invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by
social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist
restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In
this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal
needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample
precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are
equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains
where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This
book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the
social sciences and humanities, and environmental and
sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the
general public. The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367748746, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides
a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that
offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational
view on global sustainability governance. In this landmark text, an
international group of acclaimed scholars provides an overview of
key analytical and normative perspectives, material and ideational
structural barriers to sustainability transformation, and
transformative strategies. Drawing on pivotal new and contemporary
research, the volume highlights aspects to be considered and blind
spots to be avoided when trying to understand and implement global
sustainability governance. In this context, the authors of this
book debunk many myths about all-too optimistic accounts of
progress towards a sustainability transition. Simultaneously, they
suggest approaches that have the potential for real sustainability
transformation and systemic change, while acknowledging existing
hurdles. The wide-ranging chapters in the collection are organised
into four key parts: * Part 1: Conceptual lenses * Part 2: Ethics,
principles, and debates * Part 3: Key challenges * Part 4:
Transformative approaches This handbook will serve as an important
resource for academics and practitioners working in the fields of
sustainability governance and environmental politics.
The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides
a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that
offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational
view on global sustainability governance. In this landmark text, an
international group of acclaimed scholars provides an overview of
key analytical and normative perspectives, material and ideational
structural barriers to sustainability transformation, and
transformative strategies. Drawing on pivotal new and contemporary
research, the volume highlights aspects to be considered and blind
spots to be avoided when trying to understand and implement global
sustainability governance. In this context, the authors of this
book debunk many myths about all-too optimistic accounts of
progress towards a sustainability transition. Simultaneously, they
suggest approaches that have the potential for real sustainability
transformation and systemic change, while acknowledging existing
hurdles. The wide-ranging chapters in the collection are organised
into four key parts: * Part 1: Conceptual lenses * Part 2: Ethics,
principles, and debates * Part 3: Key challenges * Part 4:
Transformative approaches This handbook will serve as an important
resource for academics and practitioners working in the fields of
sustainability governance and environmental politics.
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Tropical Deforestation (Paperback)
Sharon Spray, Matt Moran; Contributions by Mark A. Cochrane, Deborah McGrath, Ken Smith, …
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Discovery Miles 11 650
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Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts
for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of
the deforestation. Contributions from scientists and academics in
the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial
'tool kit' for understanding the concepts central to their
disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of
deforestation.
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Who I Was (Paperback)
Dori Fuchs
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R510
R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
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Experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power
over governance of the global food system and the implications this
has for sustainability In today's globally integrated food system,
events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging
effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in
food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to
the development of this global food system, dominating production,
international trade, processing, distribution, and retail sectors.
Moreover, these global corporations play a key role in the
establishment of rules and regulations by which they themselves are
governed. This book examines how TNCs exercise power over global
food and agriculture governance and what the consequences are for
the sustainability of the global food system. The book defines
three aspects of this corporate power: instrumental power, or
direct influence; structural power, or the broader influence
corporations have over setting agendas and rules; and discursive,
or communicative and persuasive, power. The book begins by
examining the nature of corporate power in cases ranging from
"green" food certification in Southeast Asia and corporate
influence on U.S. food aid policy to governance in the seed
industry and international food safety standards. Chapters examine
such issues as promotion of corporate-defined "environmental
sustainability" and "food security," biotechnology firms and
intellectual property rights, and consumer resistance to GMOs and
other cases of contestation in agrobiology. In a final chapter, the
editors raise the crucial question of how to achieve participation,
transparency, and accountability in food governance. Contributors
Maarten Arentsen, Jennifer Clapp, Robert Falkner, Doris Fuchs, Agni
Kalfagianni, Peter Newell, Steffanie Scott, Susan Sell, Elizabeth
Smythe, Peter Vandergeest, Marc Williams, Mary Young
Has the political power of big business, particularly transnational
corporations (TNCs), increased in our globalizing world? What, if
anything, constrains TNCs? Analyzing the role of business in the
global arena, this systematic and theoretically grounded book
addresses these questions. Fuchs considers the implications of
expanded lobbying efforts by businesses and business associations,
the impact of capital mobility, and developments in the area of
self-regulation and public-private partnerships. She also
highlights the role of business in framing policy issues and
influencing public debate. Clearly identifying the sources of the
marked increase in the political power of TNCs, she also provides
ample evidence of the limitations and vulnerabilities that rein
them in.
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