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- Promotes the wellbeing of the commons through representation and accountability through monitoring from below
- Explores the potential of new alternative methods including Cascade and the Blue Economy Approach
- Addresses gendered, cross-cultural perspectives on what it means to be an ecological
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Social and Environmental Security: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Rural-Urban Governance
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Key Concerns Relating to Migration to the City and Strategies to Prevent the Risks of Trafficing to Women and Children
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Policy Directions to Promote Social and Environmental Security
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Janet McIntyre-Mills
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DABE, Sunnyside Campus, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Norma R. A. Romm
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College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
About the editors
Her research addresses social justice issues such as health, housing and social inclusion and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. She addresses complex needs by exploring the meanings and ‘what if’ questions with diverse stakeholders. She has written several books including: ‘Systemic Governance and Accountability’, Springer and ‘User-centric Policy Design to address Complex Needs’. She is chair of the International Systems Special Integration Group, entitled: ‘Balancing individualism and Collectivism’ and in the past was elected three timesto Research Committee 10 on Organizational Transformation of the International Sociological Association.
Her recent research addresses non anthropocentric policy for living systems. In 2017 her volumes for the Springer Contemporary Systems Series address the challenge to re-generate living systems. The sole authored volume is entitled: ‘Planetary Passport for Representation, Accountability and Re-Generation and the edited volume together with Professors Romm and Corcoran Nantes is entitled: ‘Balancing Individualism and Collectivism: Social and Environmental Justice’. The latter comprises collected papers from the Special Integration Group for International Systems Sciences which McIntyre chairs together with 16 international contributors, including early career researchers. The research seeks a better balance across social, cultural, political, economic and environmental interspecies concerns to ensure a sustainable future for current and future generations. The ecological citizen uses a ‘planetary passport’ to track the distribution and redistribution of resources in the interests of social and environmental justice. Engagement links high level challenges with individual perspectives, facilitating nuanced investigation of the complex ethical challenge of closing the gap in life chances. The central argument looks for ways to hold the powerful to account so as to enable virtuous living by the majority in a ‘planetary passport’ that demonstrates a careful use of resources and a way to protect habitat for living systems.
Norma R. A. Romm (DLitt et Phil, Sociology) is Research Professor in the Department of Adult Basic Education and Youth Development, the University of South Africa. She is the author of The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism (Macmillan, 1991), Accountability in Social Research (Springer, 2001), New Racism (Springer, 2010), ResponsibleResearch Practice (2018, Springer), People’s Education in Theoretical Perspective (with V. McKay, Longman, 1992), Diversity Management (with R. Flood, Wiley, 1996), and Assessment of the Impact of HIV and AIDS in the Informal Economy of Zambia (with V. McKay, ILO, 2008). She has co-edited three books—Social Theory (with M. Sarakinsky, Heinemann, 1994), Critical Systems Thinking (with R. Flood, Plenum, 1996) and Balancing Individualism and Collectivism (with J. McIntyre-Mills and Y. Corcoran-Nantes) She has published more than 100 research articles on the contribution of research to social development, the way in which research can be practised accountably, Indigenous ways of knowing and living, and the facilitation of adult learning. She has worked on a range of projects aimed at increasing equity for organizations such as the ILO, ADEA, IOM, and UNESCO.
Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes is an AssociateProfessor in Flinders University and is widely known in the field of gender studies wherein her research engages with some of the major issues facing women globally. Specialising in gender specific research in non-western countries in the field of development and international politics dealing with issues such as employment, agricultural development, popular grass roots politics, terrorism and conflict. She has worked as a consultant to most major INGOs such as UNESCAP, UNIFEM , UNDP & UNESCO in Central, East and Southeast Asia looking at the changing status of women in societies in transition. She undertook the first national surveys on the status of women in post-communist society in Central Asia and then Mongolia. The former led to the writing and publication of a seminal work on women in Central Asia entitled Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition which was published by Zed Books in 2006. She is a founding member of the UNESCO Asia Pacific Women’s and Gender Studies Network which was established in 2003. She has undertaken fieldwork research and consultancies in countries such as Brazil, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Timor Leste and more latterly Vietnam undertaking a research project entitled - Vietnamese Women in the Crossfire – women resistance fighters, gender equality and the post conflict experience.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democracy and Governance for Resourcing the Commons
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice on Rural-Urban Balance
Editors: Janet McIntyre-Mills, Norma R. A. Romm, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04891-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04890-7Published: 27 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04891-4Published: 11 June 2019
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 476
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development and Social Change, Social Policy