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The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World

The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World

Swilling, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 036717815X
ISBN13: 9780367178154
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 19 2019
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.

Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting evidence that deeper transitions are underway that suggest we may be entering another period of great transformation equal in significance to the agricultural revolution some 13,000 years ago or the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This book helps readers make sense of our global crisis and the dynamics of transition that could result in a shift from the industrial epoch that we live in now to a more sustainable and equitable age. The global renewable energy transition that is already underway holds the key to the wider just transition. However, the evolutionary potential of the present also manifests in the mushrooming of ecocultures, new urban visions, sustainability-oriented developmental states and new ways of learning and researching.

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