Achieving sustainability : the ultimate human challenge : critical barriers and future perspectives / Karen Blincoe.
Blincoe, Karen, author.
2022
HC79.E5
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Title Achieving sustainability : the ultimate human challenge : critical barriers and future perspectives / Karen Blincoe.
Author Blincoe, Karen, author.
ISBN 9783031100239 (electronic bk.)
3031100239 (electronic bk.)
9783031100222
3031100220
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10023-9
Published Cham : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-10023-9 doi
Call Number HC79.E5
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.927
Summary The book provides an assessment of whether sustainability is realizable in the current societal framework. What are the challenges and the barriers - and what are the levers necessary to meet and overcome them? Through a revision of the essence of sustainability the book provides an opportunity to understand the deeper level of the radical change that sustainability represents, and the resistance that is preventing its realization. To build the argument the sustainable development model is compared with current development theories as well as alternative solutions based on utopian models of the past. The book assesses the results that can be achieved within the current systemic framework, based on case stories. It outlines the limitations to sustainability, pointing out and defining the multiple, cross-sectoral and systemic barriers that hinder the transition. Finally, the book offers perspectives on achieving a sustainable future, encompassing the impacts from recent events including the pandemic as well as the multiple mitigation and transition initiatives undertaken globally. Brian Goodwin's Quote Like the caterpillar that wraps itself up in its silken swaddling bands prior to its metamorphosis into a butterfly, we have wrapped ourselves in a tangled skin from which we can emerge only by going through a similarly dramatic transformation.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
Introduction
Part One: The essence of sustainability: definitions, interpretations and applications
Part Two: The challenges of the economic development model
Part Three: Embracing utopian thought
Part Four: Sustainability in the current economic paradigm
Part Five: Barriers to sustainability
Part Six: Future perspectives - a new beginning?
Part Seven: Conclusion.

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