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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.
Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and
emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as
the dominant indicator of economic and social performance.
Contributions from leading international and Canadian researchers
in the field of beyond-GDP measurement offer a rich range of
perspectives on alternative ways to measure well-being and
sustainability, along with lessons from around the world on how to
bring those metrics into the policy process. Key topics include the
policy and political impacts of major beyond-GDP measurement
initiatives; the most promising possibilities and policy
applications for beyond-GDP measurement; key barriers to
introducing beyond-GDP metrics; and complementary measures to
ensure new measurements are not merely calculated but taken into
account in policymaking. The book highlights a distinction between
a reformist beyond-GDP vision, which seeks to improve policymaking
and quality of life within existing political and economic
institutions, and a transformative vision aiming for more
fundamental change including a move beyond economic growth.
Illustrating the many advances that have occurred in Canada and
internationally, Towards Sustainable Well-Being proposes next steps
for both the reformist and transformative visions, as well as
possible common ground between them in the pursuit of sustainable
well-being.
Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and
emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as
the dominant indicator of economic and social performance.
Contributions from leading international and Canadian researchers
in the field of beyond-GDP measurement offer a rich range of
perspectives on alternative ways to measure well-being and
sustainability, along with lessons from around the world on how to
bring those metrics into the policy process. Key topics include the
policy and political impacts of major beyond-GDP measurement
initiatives; the most promising possibilities and policy
applications for beyond-GDP measurement; key barriers to
introducing beyond-GDP metrics; and complementary measures to
ensure new measurements are not merely calculated but taken into
account in policymaking. The book highlights a distinction between
a reformist beyond-GDP vision, which seeks to improve policymaking
and quality of life within existing political and economic
institutions, and a transformative vision aiming for more
fundamental change including a move beyond economic growth.
Illustrating the many advances that have occurred in Canada and
internationally, Towards Sustainable Well-Being proposes next steps
for both the reformist and transformative visions, as well as
possible common ground between them in the pursuit of sustainable
well-being.
Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst
extremes of climate change? In When Green Growth Is Not Enough,
Anders Hayden analyzes the political battle between three competing
approaches to this question and how it has played out in Canada and
Britain. Defenders of the "business-as-usual" approach reject
climate action as too costly and in conflict with economic growth,
while downplaying the severity of climate change. Supporters of
ecological modernization, or "green growth," on the other hand, aim
to use technology and efficiency to delink economic expansion from
emissions and find business opportunities through environmental
action. While mainstream debate has focused on these two pro-growth
models, Hayden pays particular attention to the struggles and
limited inroads of a third, more radical perspective: the idea of
sufficiency, which challenges the continued growth of production
and consumption in the already-affluent global North and asks, how
much is enough? Drawing on interviews, participation in
climate-related events, and analysis of key documents, Hayden shows
the role these paradigms have played in Britain, one of the world's
leaders in climate reform, and in Canada, a nation at the bottom of
international climate change rankings. Rich in detail, When Green
Growth Is Not Enough is a lively account of the theory and
real-world politics of climate action.
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