Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development
Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks Series

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book?s theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume.

The Handbook employs a critical framework that problematises the concept of sustainable development and the struggle between discursivity and control that has characterised the debate. It provides original contributions from international experts coming from a variety of disciplines and regions, including the Global South.

Comprehensive in scope, it covers, amongst other areas:

• Sustainable architecture and design
• Biodiversity
• Sustainable business
• Climate change
• Conservation
• Sustainable consumption
• De-growth
• Disaster management
• Eco-system services
• Education
• Environmental justice
• Food and sustainable development
• Governance
• Gender
• Health
• Indicators for sustainable development
• Indigenous perspectives
• Urban transport

The Handbook offers researchers and students in the field of sustainable development invaluable insights into a contested concept and the alternative worldviews that it has fostered.

Part 1: History and Evolution of the Concept of Sustainable Development 1. Introduction: History and evolution of the concept Part 2: Institutional Dimensions of Sustainable Development 2. Does illegality enable or undermine the sustainability of the globalising economy? 3. Global Change, Islands and Sustainable Development: Islands of Sustainability or Analogues of the Challenge of Sustainable Development? 4. ‘Uncertainty’ in the professionalization of sustainable development - The case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5. Population Health, a Fundamental Marker of Sustainable Development 6. Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges of a critical pedagogy Part 3: Environmental Dimensions Of Sustainable Development 7. Biodiversity and SustainableDevelopment 8. Water and Sustainable Development 9. Sustainable Architecture10. Sustainable Design: Concepts, methods and practices11. Is managing ecosystem services necessary and sufficient to ensure sustainable development?12. Conservation, Sustainability and Economic GrowthPart 4: Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development13. Sustainable Development: Joining Sustainability and Environmental Justice14. Indigenous Perspectives: Non-Anthropocentric Sustainable Development and the Right to Self-Determination15. The Politics of Sustainable Consumption16. Advances in Sustainable Tourism Development17. Food and Sustainable DevelopmentPart 5: Economic Dimensions Of Sustainable Development18. Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development: Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature19. Sustainable development and the economic crisis under austerity: the experience of the United Kingdom19. Indicators for Sustainable Development21. Sustainable Business: A Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility Policies and Practices22. Urban Transport and Sustainable Development23. Chinese Sustainability in Transition: Which direction to take? Part 6: Sustainable Development – Future Challenges24. Agroecology as post-development discourse and practice25. The social and political dimensions of sustainable development in climate change26. Sustainable Development or the Creeping Incubation of Disaster?27.Women's 'right to sustainable development': integrating religion and a rights-based approach 28. From Sustainable Development to Governance for Sustainability

Michael Redclift is Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy at King’s College, London, UK, where he has taught since 1999.

Delyse Springett formerly directed the Centre for Business and Sustainable Development at Massey University, New Zealand, and taught Master's courses on business and sustainability at Massey University and at the University of Hong Kong.