Overview
- Highlights the significance of economic knowledge for the broader discourse of environmental sustainability
- Demonstrates how to synthesise interdisciplinary research for sustainable development
- Includes practical and illustrative examples of successful and failing policies and management approaches for sustainability
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Sustainability Process: Context and Scope
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Economic and Ecological Knowledge in the Sustainability Process
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The Future: Sustainability Transformation
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Keywords
- environmental sustainability
- environmental economics
- sustainability
- social ecological approach
- environmental and resource management
- ecological economics
- sustainability governance
- social-ecological transformation
- sustainable society
- sustainable development
- natural resource management
- earth systems governance
- Environmental Geography
About this book
Split into three parts, the book begins by introducing a range of topics forming the basis of knowledge needed to understand the varying sustainability discourses in economics, ecology and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Chapters cover the political context of sustainability; the history of sustainability in European environmental discourses dating back to the seventeenth century; as well as various problems and forms of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and synthesis in the sustainability process. Part II reviews the core economic themes relevant to sustainable development including natural resource management, environmentaleconomics and ecological economics. Also highlighted are often neglected issues such as conflicts, disasters and interrelated crises on the way towards sustainability. The chapters in Part III discuss the future of the sustainability process. They argue for the necessity of overhauling the relationship between science and practice; explore failures and the unforeseen difficulties of sustainability transformation; and discuss how to enable a long term sustainability process that reaches into the distant future.
An innovative resource for a broad range of interdisciplinary programmes on sustainability. The book will be an invaluable reference for master and PhD students, instructors, researchers and practitioners in sustainability governance.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economics and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Social-Ecological Perspectives
Authors: Karl Bruckmeier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56627-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56626-5Published: 22 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56627-2Published: 21 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 447
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Economics, Geography, general, Environmental Geography, Development Studies