Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing (eBook, ePUB)

Theories, Histories and Policies
Redaktion: Spinozzi, Paola; Mazzanti, Massimiliano

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age. Why wellbeing ought to be regarded as essential to sustainable development is explored first from multifocal theoretical perspectives encompassing sociology, literary criticism and socioeconomics, second in relation to institutions and policies, and third with a focus on specific case studies across the world. Wellbeing and its sustainability are defined in terms of biological and cultural diversity; stages of advancement in science and technology; notions of citizenship and agency; geopolitical scenarios and environmental conditions.

Wellbeing and sustainability call for enquiries into human capacities in ontological, epistemological and practical terms. A view of sustainability that revolves around material and immaterial wellbeing is based on the assumption that life quality, comfort, happiness, security, safety always posit humans as both recipients and agents. Risk and resilience in contemporary societies define the intrinsically human ability to make and consume, to act and adapt, driving the search for and fruition of wellbeing. How to sustain the dual process of exploitation and regeneration is a task that requires integrated approaches from the sciences and the humanities, jointly tracing a worldwide cartography with clear localisations.

This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in sustainability through conceptual and empirical approaches including social theory, literary and cultural studies, environmental economics and human ecology, urbanism and cultural geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315306575
• Artikelnr.: 50215565

Autorenporträt

Paola Spinozzi is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Ferrara. Her research focuses on the relationships between literature and visual art, science, utopia as a genre and sustainability. Massimiliano Mazzanti is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Ferrara. He specialises in environmental policy, economics of innovation and waste management.

Inhaltsangabe

Pillars and Circles: Wellbeing at the Core of Sustainability Paola Spinozzi
and Massimiliano Mazzanti
Part I. Sustainable Wellbeing in Theory and History
Prologue Paola Spinozzi
I.1. Creating Capacities for Human Flourishing: An Alternative Approach to
Human Development Paul James
I.2. The Incongruities of Sustainability: An Examination of the UN Earth
Summit Declarations 1972-2012 Gonzalo Salazar
I.3. Slow Living and Sustainability: The Victorian Legacy Wendy Parkins
I.4. Innovation and Consumption in the Evolution of Capitalist Societies
Pier Paolo Saviotti
1.5. In a Prescient Mode. (Un)Sustainable Societies in the Post/Apocalyptic
Genre Paola Spinozzi
Part II. Policies and Institutions for Wellbeing
Prologue Massimiliano Mazzanti
II.1. Contextualising Sustainability: Socio-Economic Dynamics, Technology
and Policy Massimiliano Mazzanti and Marianna Gilli
II.2. Social Equity and Ecological Sustainability through the Lens of
Degrowth Valeria Andreoni
II.3. Institutionalist Climate Governance for Pleasant Cities and the Good
Life Gjalt Huppes and Ruben Huele
II.4. Assessing Public Awareness about Biodiversity in Europe Anna
Kalinowska
II.5. Is the Current Global Role of English Sustainable? Richard Chapman
Part III. Sustainable Wellbeing Via Habitat and Citizenship
Prologue Paola Spinozzi and Massimiliano Mazzanti
III.1. The Impact of Settlements on Urban River Basins and the Case of the
Belém River in Curitiba, Brazil Gilda Cassilha, Marta Gabardo, Sylvia
Leitão, and Zulma Schussel
III.2. Creative Social Innovation and Social Urbanism: The Case of Medellin
Ana Elena Builes Vélez and María Florencia Guidobono
III.3. Long-term Visions and Ordinary Management: Post-Earthquake
Reconstruction in the Italian Region of Emilia Gianfranco Franz
III.4. Urban Life and Climate Change at the Core of Political Dialogue: A
Focus on Saint-Louis du Sénégal Adrien Coly, Fatimatou Sall, Mohamed
Diatta C.B.C., and Chérif Samsédine Sarr
III.5. Is Ethno-tourism a Strategy of Sustainable Wellbeing? A Focus on
Mapuche Entrepreneurs Gonzalo Valdivieso, Andrés Ried and Sofía Rojo
III.6. Japanese Castle Towns as Models for Contemporary Urban Planning
Shigeru Satoh
III.7. Vietnam's Pathway towards Sustainability: Stories Half-told Nhai
Pham and Dan Tong