Description
The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational view on global sustainability governance.
In this landmark text, an international group of acclaimed scholars provides an overview of key analytical and normative perspectives, material and ideational structural barriers to sustainability transformation, and transformative strategies. Drawing on pivotal new and contemporary research, the volume highlights aspects to be considered and blind spots to be avoided when trying to understand and implement global sustainability governance. In this context, the authors of this book debunk many myths about all-too optimistic accounts of progress towards a sustainability transition. Simultaneously, they suggest approaches that have the potential for real sustainability transformation and systemic change, while acknowledging existing hurdles. The wide-ranging chapters in the collection are organised into four key parts:
• Part 1: Conceptual lenses
• Part 2: Ethics, principles, and debates
• Part 3: Key challenges
• Part 4: Transformative approaches
This handbook will serve as an important resource for academics and practitioners working in the fields of sustainability governance and environmental politics.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Critical and Transformative Perspectives on Global Sustainability Governance
Anders Hayden, Doris Fuchs, and Agni Kalfagianni
Part 1: Conceptual Lenses
1. Power and Legitimacy
Magdalena Bexell
2. Environmental Governance as Performance
Ingolful Blühdorn and Michael Deflorian
3. Engaging the Everyday: Sustainability as Resonance
John M. Meyer
4. Materiality and Nonhuman Agency
Tobias Gumbert
5. Worlding Global Sustainability Governance
Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Thais Lemos Ribeiro, and Ítalo Sant' Anna Resende
Part 2: Ethics, Principles, and Debates
6. Justice
Agni Kalfagianni, Andrea K. Gerlak, Lennart Olsson, and Michelle Scobie
7. Representation of Future Generations
Peter Lawrence
8. The 'Good Life' and Protected Needs
Antonietta Di Giulio and Rico Defila
9. Post-Eurocentric Sustainability Governance: lessons from the Latin American Buen Vivir experiment
Julien Vanhulst and Adrián E. Beling
10. Responsibility
Luigi Pellizzoni
11. Religion
Katharina Glaab
12. Sufficiency
Anders Hayden
Part 3. Key Challenges
13. North-South Inequity and Global Environmental Governance
Chukwumerjie Okereke
14. Growth and Development
Kerrin Higgs
15. The Mining Dilemma
Thomas Princen
16. Financialising Nature
Jennifer Clapp and Phoebe Stephens
17. Environmental Countermovements: Organised Opposition to Climate Change Action in the United States
Robert Brulle and Melissa Aronczyk
18. A Critique of Techno-Optimism: Efficiency Without Sufficiency is Lost
Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford
19. Consumer Values and Consumption
Naomi Krogman
20. The Population Challenge
Diana Coole
Part 4: Transformative Approaches
21. Beyond Magical Thinking
Michael Maniates
22. Democracy in The Anthropocene
Ayşem Mert
23. Living Well within Limits: the Vision of Consumption Corridors
Doris Fuchs
24. Beyond GDP: The Economics of Well-being
Dirk Philipsen
25. Beyond A-Growth: Sustainable Zero Growth
Steffen Lange
26. Work-Time Reduction for Sustainable Lifestyles
Jörgen Larsson, Jonas Nässén, and Erik Lundberg
27. Decarbonisation
Richard Lane
28. Localism, Sharing, and Care
Karen Litfin
Conclusion: Global Sustainability Governance – Really?
Doris Fuchs, Anders Hayden, and Agni Kalfagianni
