Overview
- Explores collaborative approaches, drawing on diverse ways of knowing, and citizen centered self-governance of ecological footprints that can support regional governance in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Addresses the need for nation states to find ways to control the super-rich through the governance process
- Highlights culturally diverse ways of caring and stewardship to provide practical lessons on re-generation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. The book examines the complex ethical challenges of closing the wide gap in living standards between rich and poor people/communities. The notion of an ecological citizen is presented with a focus on protecting current and future generations. The idea is to track the distribution and redistribution of resources in the interests of social and environmental justice. The central argument looks for ways to hold the powerful to account so as to enable virtuous living by the majority to be demonstrated in what the author calls a “planetary passport” - a careful use of resources and a way to provide safe passage to those in need of safe habitat. The book argues that nation states need to find ways to control the super-rich through the governance process and to enhance a sense of shared ecological citizenship and responsibility for biodiversity. The fundamental approach is collaborative research.
Planetary Passport: Representation, Accountability and Re-Generation is comprised of six chapters. Chapter 1 begins by making a case for a paradigm shift away from business as usual and the pursuit of profit at the expense of the social and environmental fabric of life. The aim is to explore alternatives and to discuss some ways of achieving wellbeing whilst the focus is on human rights, discrimination and outlining the notion of a planetary passport. Chapter 2 makes a specific link between people and the planet as a basis for understanding the nature of hybridity and interconnectedness and the implications for ethics. Chapter 3 focuses on building this planetary passport for social and environmental justice in order to enable people with complex needs to consider the consequences of either continuing to live the same way as before or making changes to the way that they live.Meanwhile Chapter 4 does the same as the previous chapter, but explores the political context of consumption and short term profit Chapter 5 examines the challenges and opportunities that come from explorations within a cross-cultural learning community. This includes a look at co-creation and co-determination. Finally Chapter 6 ends with a look to the future and a potential new framework for people and the planet through a planetary passport.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Her books include: ‘Global Citizenship and social movements’ (Routledge), ‘Critical Systemic Praxis for social and environmental justice’ (Springer), ‘User-centric design to address complex needs’ (Nova Science). ‘Transformation From Wall Street to Wellbeing: Joining up the dots through Participatory Democracy and Governance to Mitigate the Causes and Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change’. (Springer) and ‘Systemic ethics and Non-anthropocentric Stewardship: Implications for Transdisciplinarity and Cosmopolitan politics’ (Springer).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planetary Passport
Book Subtitle: Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation
Authors: Janet McIntyre-Mills
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58011-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58010-4Published: 09 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86303-0Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58011-1Published: 31 August 2017
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVI, 371
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business Ethics, Development and Social Change, Public Administration