This timely and accessible book explores the links between politics, learning and sustainability. Its central focus is the future of people and the planet itself. The challenges that we face in combatting climate change and building a more sustainable world are complex and the book argues that if we are to successfully meet these challenges we need a fundamental change in the way we do politics and economics, embedding a lifelong commitment to sustainability in all learning. We have no option but to make things work for the better. After all, planet earth is the only home we have! The book will be important reading for academics and students in a variety of related subjects, including politics, public policy, education, sustainable development, geography, media, international relations and development studies. It will also be a valuable resource for NGOs and policy makers.
395 SIXTEEN Food security, inclusive growth, sustainability and the sustainable development agenda1 Craig Hanson with contributions from Tim Searchinger, Richard Waite, Betsy Otto, Brian Lipinski and Kelly Levin Introduction Over the next several decades, the world faces an historic challenge and opportunity at the nexus of food security, economic development and the environment. The world needs to be food secure. The world needs agriculture to contribute to inclusive economic development, and the world needs to reduce agriculture’s impact on the
How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status?
Sustainable development discourse has come to permeate different policy fields, including transport, housing, property development and education. In this exciting book, authors highlight the uneven impacts and effects of these policies in London, including the creation of new social and economic inequalities. The contributors seek to move sustainable city debates and policies in London towards a progressive, socially just future that advances the public good.
The book is essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
urgency to the policy discussions. This chapter examines the implications of the major demographic shift in population age structures, Global North and South, and suggests how it might be managed sustainably. There are three stages to this analysis. First, the scope of global ageing is summarized, as well as its causes and the closely related transformations in family structure and epidemiology. Second, the relationship between ageing and sustainability discourses is examined, which reveals the heavy emphasis on the economic dimension, with the exclusion of the
-tune our relationship to joy. We need to find a life strategy that both is joyful and does no harm to others and does not endanger our future on this planet. I call this sustainable hedonism . Resource overuse and the ‘global rich’ Our consumption has gradually outgrown the limited resources of our planet. World Overshoot Day fell on 29 July in 2019, a calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. 1 In 2020, the date fell on 22 August, given the
ARTICLE Education after sustainability Steve Gough Department of Education, University of Bath, Bath, UK ABSTRACT There is nothing at all new about societies collapsing as a result of environmental crises caused by poor choices made under uncer- tainty. Indeed, such instances have been very well documented by, in particular, Jared Diamond; and some have been further explored from an educational perspective. However, and as Diamond himself points out, it can very well be argued that, because of the globalised nature of contemporary societies, a situation now
Introduction The idea of labour standards as constitutive of ‘sustainability’ has begun to emerge in the sphere of the academic literature on labour law (Galgoczi, 2014 ; Frey and McNaughton, 2016 ; Polomarkakis, 2019 ). Previously, analysis tended to be confined largely to the ways in which regulation of labour markets and trade union action could promote (or obstruct) inter-generational environmental sustainable development (Lund, 2004 ; Räthzel and Uzzell, 2013). The notion that labour law might be itself a key facet of the ‘social’ and ‘economic
1 INTRODUCTION: SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES David Simon Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. There are numerous reasons for this, differing in precise combination across countries and regions. Among the most important of these is a growing appreciation of the implications of rapid urbanisation now occurring in China, India and many other low- and middle-income countries with historically low urbanisation levels. Much of this urbanisation is emulating unsustainable
Part One The challenge of sustainability: politics, education and learning
Part One Conceptions of sustainable development
