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Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries
that reduces production and consumption-and, by extension,
greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems-to
sustainable levels within ecological limits. This book explores the
idea of degrowth as an economic alternative to offer a more
sustainable and just future. A growing number of scientists and
scholars now recognize that a system that continues to prioritize
economic growth will prevent us from effectively addressing the
dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
To establish the case for degrowth, the text opens by posing
critical questions about our current system and identifying its
limitations, as well as discussing the ineffectiveness of "false
solutions" that seem to offer something new but would actually
preserve the status quo. The concept of degrowth is then fully
introduced along with a discussion of core principles and goals as
well as major critiques and questions. The book explores what
living in a degrowth society would entail and the policies needed
to support degrowth. Finally, the work concludes by examining the
opportunities and challenges for degrowth and a successful
transition to a sustainable steady-state economy. This book
provides an advanced introduction to the environmental issues
around degrowth for students, scholars and activists interested in
economic alternatives, sustainability and the environment.
Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries
that reduces production and consumption-and, by extension,
greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems-to
sustainable levels within ecological limits. This book explores the
idea of degrowth as an economic alternative to offer a more
sustainable and just future. A growing number of scientists and
scholars now recognize that a system that continues to prioritize
economic growth will prevent us from effectively addressing the
dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
To establish the case for degrowth, the text opens by posing
critical questions about our current system and identifying its
limitations, as well as discussing the ineffectiveness of "false
solutions" that seem to offer something new but would actually
preserve the status quo. The concept of degrowth is then fully
introduced along with a discussion of core principles and goals as
well as major critiques and questions. The book explores what
living in a degrowth society would entail and the policies needed
to support degrowth. Finally, the work concludes by examining the
opportunities and challenges for degrowth and a successful
transition to a sustainable steady-state economy. This book
provides an advanced introduction to the environmental issues
around degrowth for students, scholars and activists interested in
economic alternatives, sustainability and the environment.
This edited volume examines how climate action plans engage justice
at the scale of the city. Recent events in the United States make
the context particularly ripe for a discussion of justice in urban
climate politics. On the one hand, the emergence of the Black Lives
Matter movement, George Floyd's death, and the prominence of racial
discrimination in the public realm have mainstreamed the notion of
justice. On the other hand, the dire consequences of increased
frequency and severity of climate events on vulnerable segments of
urban populations are undeniable. While some cities have been
proactive about integrating justice in their climate action
planning, in most places an explicit and systematic link between
both spheres has been lacking. This book explores this interface as
it seeks to understand how cities can respond to climate change in
a just way and for just outcomes. While resilience strategies based
on "development" may engage historic inequities, they may at the
same time result in marginalizing certain populations through
various processes, from mismatched solutions to outright exclusion
and climate gentrification. By identifying how certain populations
are included in or excluded from climate action planning practices,
the chapters in this volume draw on case studies to outline the
differential outcomes of climate action in American cities, also
proposing a template for comparative work beyond the US. The
authors tackle the debate about how justice is or is not integrated
in climate action plans and assess practical implications, while
also making theoretical and methodological contributions. As it
fills a gap in the literature at the intersection of justice and
climate action, the book produces new insights for a wide-ranging
audience: students, practitioners, policy-makers, planners, the
non-profit sector, and scholars in geography, urban planning, urban
studies, environmental studies, ecology, political science, or
anthropology. Along five axes of investigation theory, resilience,
equity, community, and comparison as method the contributors offer
various pathways into the intersection between urban climate action
and different understandings of justice. Collectively, they invite
a reflection that can lead to practical initiatives in climate
mitigation, while also advancing the theorization of social justice
to account for the urban as a node where (in)justice plays out and
can be addressed with significant results.
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Vanish (Paperback)
Brian Petersen
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The use of e-learning as an educational tool is skyrocketing both
within educational institutions and corporate organizations.
Clearly, organizations see e-learning as a value-add that can
favorably impact their business. Benefits include improved
workforce effectiveness, reduced training costs, and improved
workforce retention. But with any new technological advancement in
learning and education comes change and numerous questions are
being asked by various stakeholders about just how useful e-
learning is to an organzation? A more recent question has come to
the forefront, where corporate executives are asking "Are our
e-learning programs effective in delivering the benefits we
expected?" This book and investigation is in response to the
compelling pressures to better understand the effectiveness of
e-learning programs within organizations, and examining if a
scorecard could be developed to measure the on-going effectiveness
from various stakeholder's perspectives. Brian Petersen Ph.D. is a
Partner of inteLogica's Enterprise Learning Division and Managing
Partner of Elite Training Consultants.
Climate Change Solutions represents an application of critical
theory to examine proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing
from Marx's negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate
how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction
or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent
capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change.
Dominant solutions to climate change that offer minor changes to
the current system fail to address this contradiction. However,
alternatives like degrowth involve a shift in priorities and power
relations and can offer new systemic arrangements that confront and
move beyond the capital-climate contradiction. While there are
clear barriers to a systemic transition that prioritizes social and
ecological well-being, such a transition is possible and desirable.
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