Strongly Sustainable Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth
Redaktion: Bonnedahl, Karl Johan; Heikkurinen, Pasi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on the assumption of strong sustainability, this edited book presents practical and theoretical alternatives to today's unsustainable societies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, ecological economics, environmental governance and policy, and sustainable development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351173629
• Artikelnr.: 54251498

Autorenporträt

Karl Johan Bonnedahl, Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Sweden. Pasi Heikkurinen, Lecturer, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 The call for strong sustainability
Karl Johan Bonnedahl and Pasi Heikkurinen
PART I
Roots of unsustainability
2 The long history of unsustainability: Inter-species relations since the
1850s
Tarja Ketola, Tuomas Räsänen and Taina Syrjämaa
3 Rethinking economic ontologies: From scarcity and market subjects to
strong sustainability
Teppo Eskelinen and Kristoffer Wilén
PART II
Ethical foundations
4 Rights of nature as a prerequisite for sustainability
Pella Larsdotter Thiel and Henrik Hallgren
5 The energy ethic and strong sustainability: Outlining key principles for
a moral compass
Giovanni Frigo
PART III
Public policy and urbanisation
6 Ecosystem infrastructure for sustainability: Revaluating nature through
community-based water and land policies in Brazil
Mohammad Al-Saidi and Renata Buriti
7 Urban ecosystem services and stakeholders: Towards a sustainable
capability approach
Anna Heikkinen, Hannele Mäkelä, Johanna Kujala, Jere Nieminen, Ari Jokinen
and Hanna Rekola
8 Meat consumption and the environmental unsustainability of economic
growth: The case of China
Jennifer Rivers Cole and Suzanne K. McCoskey
PART IV
Business management and investment
9 Business models based on strongly sustainable entrepreneurship: Insights
from a systemic literature review
Herman Stål
10 Biodiversity as integral to strongly sustainable supply chains: Review
and exemplars in the natural resources sectors
Anne Quarshie, Asta Salmi, Joanna Scott-Kennel and Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen
11 Sustainable investment and degrowth
Tommi Lehtonen
PART V
Identity, needs and wellbeing
12 Strongly sustainable consumption and a case of mistaken identity: A
qualitative study on environmentally concerned individuals
Kristoffer Wilén and Tiina Taipale
13 Being matters: A holistic conception of wellbeing in the shift towards
strongly sustainable societies
Tuula Helne
PART VI
Reconnect to the Earth
14 Relearning with permaculture: Exploring knowledges of innovation for
strong sustainability
Maxim Vlasov and Zsuzsanna Vincze
15 Redesigning community as an ecovillage: Lessons from Earthaven
Todd Levasseur and Lee Warren
PART VII
Conclusion
16 Dead ends and liveable futures: A framework for sustainable change
Pasi Heikkurinen and Karl Johan Bonnedahl
Index