ABSTRACT
This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book’s theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume.
The Handbook employs a critical framework that problematises the concept of sustainable development and the struggle between discursivity and control that has characterised the debate. It provides original contributions from international experts coming from a variety of disciplines and regions, including the Global South.
Comprehensive in scope, it covers, amongst other areas:
- Sustainable architecture and design
- Biodiversity
- Sustainable business
- Climate change
- Conservation
- Sustainable consumption
- De-growth
- Disaster management
- Eco-system services
- Education
- Environmental justice
- Food and sustainable development
- Governance
- Gender
- Health
- Indicators for sustainable development
- Indigenous perspectives
- Urban transport
The Handbook offers researchers and students in the field of sustainable development invaluable insights into a contested concept and the alternative worldviews that it has fostered.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I History and evolution of the concept of sustainable development
chapter |36 pages
Sustainable development : history and evolution of the concept
part |2 pages
PART II Institutional dimensions of sustainable development
part |2 pages
PART III Environmental dimensions of sustainable development
chapter |13 pages
Biodiversity and sustainable development
chapter |11 pages
Water and sustainable development
chapter |17 pages
Sustainable architecture
chapter |15 pages
Sustainable design: concepts, methods and practices
chapter |11 pages
Conservation, sustainability and economic growth
part |2 pages
PART IV Social dimensions of sustainable development
chapter |13 pages
Sustainable development: environmental justice and sustainability
chapter |13 pages
The politics of sustainable consumption
chapter |14 pages
Sustainable tourism development
chapter |15 pages
Food and sustainable development: how should we feed the world?
part |2 pages
PART V Economic dimensions of sustainable development
chapter |15 pages
Indicators for sustainable development
chapter |14 pages
Urban transport and sustainable development
chapter |14 pages
China’s transition to sustainability: which direction to take?
part |2 pages
PART VI Sustainable development: future challenges