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Routledge Studies in Sustainability


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Sustainability has become one of the most pressing social, environmental, economic, cultural and political issues of our times. Yet the meaning of ‘sustainability’ remains elusive.

This series provides original insights from across the social sciences and humanities on the meaning and practice of sustainability. It offers both theoretical and practical analysis of ‘sustainability’, including social sustainability, sustainable consumption, democratic sustainability and sustainable behaviour.

These interdisciplinary books give students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners the latest thinking from international authors. This thought-provoking series draws on and is relevant to those working in a wide-range of disciplines, including environment, development, sociology, politics, philosophy, business and marketing, media, geography, and anthropology.

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Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures Promises and Pitfalls

Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Chiara Certomà, Fabio Iapaolo, Federico Martellozzo
August 08, 2024

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalisation and sustainability. Amid escalating environmental crises, some of which are now irreversible, there is a noticeable commitment within both international and domestic policy agendas to employ digital technologies in pursuit of ...

Transdisciplinary Research, Sustainability, and Social Transformation Governance and Knowledge Co-Production

Transdisciplinary Research, Sustainability, and Social Transformation: Governance and Knowledge Co-Production

1st Edition

By Tom Dedeurwaerdere
December 11, 2023

This book addresses the gap in the existing literature on the governance of transdisciplinary research partnerships in transformational sustainability research by exploring the governance of knowledge co-production in coupled socio-ecological system dynamics. Multiple social and ecological crises ...

Critical Sustainability Sciences Intercultural and Emancipatory Perspectives

Critical Sustainability Sciences: Intercultural and Emancipatory Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Stephan Rist, Patrick Bottazzi, Johanna Jacobi
August 02, 2023

This book explores Critical Sustainability Sciences, a new field of scientific inquiry into sustainability issues. It builds on a highly novel integration of elements from relational ontologies, critical theory, political ecology, and intercultural philosophy in support of emancipatory perspectives...

Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region Social and Cultural Perspectives

Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region: Social and Cultural Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Viktor Pál, Iris Borowy
June 29, 2023

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region, where impressive economic growth has led to significant increases in production, consumption and concomitant waste production. This ...

Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa

Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Muyiwa Oyinlola, Oluwaseun Kolade
May 31, 2023

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder perspectives exploring challenges and opportunities for ...

Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions The Interdependence of Local and Global

Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions: The Interdependence of Local and Global

1st Edition

Edited By Rita Sørly, Tony Ghaye, Bård Kårtveit
May 31, 2023

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges. Polar regions are changing rapidly. These changes will dramatically effect ecosystems, economy, people, communities and their ...

Reimagining Labor for a Sustainable Future

Reimagining Labor for a Sustainable Future

1st Edition

By Alison E. Vogelaar, Poulomi Dasgupta
December 30, 2022

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism. Reimagining Labor for a Sustainable Future is guided by the assertion that new systems are always preceded by new ...

The Environmental Impact of Cities Death by Democracy and Capitalism

The Environmental Impact of Cities: Death by Democracy and Capitalism

1st Edition

By Fabricio Chicca, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale
December 29, 2022

The Environmental Impact of Cities assesses the environmental impact that comes from cities and their inhabitants, demonstrating that our current political and economic systems are not environmentally sustainable because they are designed for endless growth in a system which is finite. It is ...

Sustainable Living at the Centre for Alternative Technology Radical Ideas and Practical Solutions

Sustainable Living at the Centre for Alternative Technology: Radical Ideas and Practical Solutions

1st Edition

By Stephen Jacobs
October 27, 2022

This book presents a detailed exploration into the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an enterprise concerned with finding and communicating sustainable ways of living, established in Wales in 1973. Playing a central role in the global green network, this study examines CAT’s history and ...

Rural Governance in the UK Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society

Rural Governance in the UK: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society

1st Edition

Edited By Adrienne Attorp, Sean Heron, Ruth McAreavey
October 18, 2022

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of rural society in a post-Brexit UK by examining the emergence of new environmental and rural policies and the implications of this transition for rural communities. Through the Common Agricultural Policy, Common Fisheries Policy, the Birds and ...

Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon

Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon

1st Edition

By Ed Atkins
August 01, 2022

In Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon, Ed Atkins focuses on how local, national, and international civil society groups have resisted the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in Brazil. In doing so, Atkins explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects ...

Circular Cities A Revolution in Urban Sustainability

Circular Cities: A Revolution in Urban Sustainability

1st Edition

By Jo Williams
April 22, 2021

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.  This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular ...

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