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dc.contributor.authorQuilley, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorKish, Kaitlin
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-07T05:44:23Z
dc.date.available2023-06-07T05:44:23Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63354
dc.description.abstractEmbracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume uses the technical tools from ecological economics to recast the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Ecological Livelihood Goals – policy agendas and trajectories that seek to reconcile the social and spatial mobility and liberty of individuals, with both material security and ecological integrity.Since the 1970s, mainstream approaches to sustainable development have sought to reconcile ecological constraints with modernization through much vaunted and seldom demonstrated strategies of ‘decoupling’ and ‘dematerialization’. In this context, the UN SDGs have become the orchestrating drivers of sustainability governance. However, biophysical limits are not so easily sidestepped. Building on an ecological- economic critique of mainstream economics and a historical- sociological understanding of state formation, this book explores the implications of ecological limits for modern progressive politics. Each chapter outlines leverage points for municipal engagement in local and regional contexts. Systems theory and community development perspectives are used to explore under- appreciated avenues for the kind of social and cultural change that would be necessary for any accommodation between modernity and ecological limits. Drawing on ideas from H.T. Odum, Herman Daly, Zigmunt Bauman, and many others, this book provides guiding research for a convergence between North and South that is bottom-up, household-centred, and predicated on a re- emerging domain of Livelihood. In each chapter, the authors provide recommendations for reconfiguring the UN’s SDGs as Ecological Livelihood Goals – a framework for sustainable development in an era of limits.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological economics, socio- ecological systems, political economy, international and community development, global governance, and sustainable development.
dc.languageEnglish
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dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economicsen_US
dc.subject.otherBusiness & Economics
dc.subject.otherDevelopment
dc.subject.otherEconomic Development
dc.subject.otherSustainable Development
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental Economics
dc.titleEcological Limits of Development
dc.title.alternativeLiving with the Sustainable Development Goals
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003087526
oapen.relation.isPublishedByTaylor & Francis
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780367540593
oapen.relation.isbn9780367540760
oapen.relation.isbn9781000471458
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintRoutledge
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