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dc.contributor.authorSwilling, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-19T16:23:32Z
dc.date.available2021-11-19T16:23:32Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20211119_9780429609244_12
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51559
dc.description.abstractWith 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. Shedding light on the highly complex challenge of a sustainable and just transition, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with establishing a more sustainable and equitable world. Ultimately, this is a book about hope but without easy answers.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Sustainable Development
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interesten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocolsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphereen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment::RNPG Climate changeen_US
dc.subject.otherAfrica
dc.subject.otherDevelopment
dc.subject.otherEcocultural
dc.subject.otherEnergy Transitions
dc.subject.otherEquitable Society
dc.subject.otherFuturing
dc.subject.otherIncrementalism
dc.subject.otherInternational Resource Panel
dc.subject.otherMetatheoretical Framework
dc.subject.otherSDGs
dc.subject.otherSustainable Development
dc.subject.otherSustainable Development Goals
dc.subject.otherSustainable Transitions
dc.subject.otherUrban Transitions
dc.titleThe Age of Sustainability
dc.title.alternativeJust Transitions in a Complex World
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429057823
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oapen.relation.isbn9780429057823
oapen.relation.isbn9780367178161
oapen.relation.isbn9780367178154
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages350
oapen.grant.numberhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/721efb99-c9e8-4a7b-9b01-ef101ad30990
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