Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks Series

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.

Introduction: Critical and Transformative Perspectives on Global Sustainability Governance Part 1: Conceptual Lenses 1. Power and Legitimacy 2. Environmental Governance as Performance 3. Engaging the Everyday: Sustainability as Resonance 4. Materiality and Nonhuman Agency 5. Worlding Global Sustainability Governance Part 2: Ethics, Principles, and Debates 6. Justice7. Representation of Future Generations 8. The 'Good Life' and Protected Needs 9. Post-Eurocentric Sustainability Governance: Lessons from the Latin American Buen Vivir Experiment 10. Responsibility 11. Religion 12. Sufficiency Part 3. Key Challenges 13. North-South Inequity and Global Environmental Governance 14. Growth and Development 15. The Mining Dilemma 16. Financialising Nature 17. Environmental Countermovements: Organised Opposition to Climate Change Action in the United States 18. A Critique of Techno-Optimism: Efficiency Without Sufficiency is Lost 19. Consumer Values and Consumption 20. The Population Challenge Part 4: Transformative Approaches 21. Beyond Magical Thinking 22. Democracy in The Anthropocene 23. Living Well within Limits: the Vision of Consumption Corridors 24. Beyond GDP: The Economics of Well-being 25. Beyond A-Growth: Sustainable Zero Growth 26. Work-Time Reduction for Sustainable Lifestyles 27. Decarbonisation 28. Localism, Sharing, and Care Conclusion: Global Sustainability Governance – Really?

Agni Kalfagianni is Associate Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Doris Fuchs is Professor of International Relations and Sustainable Development and speaker of the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Muenster, Germany.

Anders Hayden is Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Canada.