Description
Strongly Sustainable Societies
Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth
Routledge Studies in Sustainability Series
Coordinators: Bonnedahl Karl Johan, Heikkurinen Pasi
Language: EnglishSubjects for Strongly Sustainable Societies:
Keywords
Strong Sustainability; Full Earth; Karl Bonnedahl; Weak Sustainability; Pasi Heikkurinen; Critical Natural Capital; socio-ecological problems; Urban Ecosystem Services; Sustainable Supply Chain Management; sustainable development; Ecosystem Services; Ecological Embeddedness; unsustainable societies; Pe Scheme; ecological modernism; Energy Policies; environmental justice; Energy Ethic; sustainable investing; Sustainable Entrepreneurship; sustainable supply chains; Sul River Basin; consumption; SCM Research; sustainable technologies; Sustainable Business Models; energy ethics; Basic Environmental Education; climate change; Social Ecological Economics; environmental stewardship; Te Awa Tupua; biodiversity; Capability Approach; SCM Discipline; Tarja Ketola; Supply Chain Sustainability; Tuomas Räsänen; Circular Supply Chains; Taina Syrjämaa; Energy Justice; Teppo Eskelinen; Meat Consumption; Kristoffer Wilén; Brazil’s Environmental Policies; Pella Larsdotter Thiel; Henrik Hallgren; Giovanni Frigo; Mohammad Al-Saidi; Renata Buriti; Anna Heikkinen; Hannele Mäkelä; Johanna Kujala; Jere Nieminen; Ari Jokinen; Hanna Rekola; Jennifer Rivers Cole; Suzanne K; McCoskey; Herman I; Stål; Anne Quarshie; Asta Salmi; Joanna Scott-Kennel; Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen; Tommi Lehtonen; Tiina Taipale; Tuula Helne; Maxim Vlasov; Zsuzsanna Vincze; Todd LeVasseur; Lee Warren
Publication date: 09-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 09-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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The response of the international community to the pressing socio-ecological problems has been framed around the concept of ?sustainable development?. The ecological pressure, however, has continued to rise and mainstream sustainability discourse has proven to be problematic. It contains an instrumental view of the world, a strong focus on technological solutions, and the premise that natural and human-made ?capitals? are substitutable. This trajectory, which is referred to as ?weak sustainability?, reproduces inequalities, denies intrinsic values in nature, and jeopardises the wellbeing of humans as well as other beings.
Based on the assumptions of strong sustainability, this edited book presents practical and theoretical alternatives to today?s unsustainable societies. It investigates and advances pathways for humanity that are ecologically realistic, ethically inclusive, and receptive to the task?s magnitude and urgency. The book challenges the traditional anthropocentric ethos and ontology, economic growth-dogma, and programmes of ecological modernisation. It discusses options with examples on different levels of analysis, from the individual to the global, addressing the economic system, key sectors of society, alternative lifestyles, and experiences of local communities.
Examining key topics including human?nature relations and wealth and justice, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental and development studies, ecological economics, environmental governance and policy, sustainable business, and sustainability science.
List of Figures
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Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 The call for strong sustainability
Karl Johan Bonnedahl and Pasi Heikkurinen
PART I
Roots of unsustainability
2 The long history of unsustainability: Inter-species relations since the 1850s
Tarja Ketola, Tuomas Räsänen and Taina Syrjämaa
3 Rethinking economic ontologies: From scarcity and market subjects to strong sustainability
Teppo Eskelinen and Kristoffer Wilén
PART II
Ethical foundations
4 Rights of nature as a prerequisite for sustainability
Pella Larsdotter Thiel and Henrik Hallgren
5 The energy ethic and strong sustainability: Outlining key principles for a moral compass
Giovanni Frigo
PART III
Public policy and urbanisation
6 Ecosystem infrastructure for sustainability: Revaluating nature through community-based water and land policies in Brazil
Mohammad Al-Saidi and Renata Buriti
7 Urban ecosystem services and stakeholders: Towards a sustainable capability approach
Anna Heikkinen, Hannele Mäkelä, Johanna Kujala, Jere Nieminen, Ari Jokinen and Hanna Rekola
8 Meat consumption and the environmental unsustainability of economic growth: The case of China
Jennifer Rivers Cole and Suzanne K. McCoskey
PART IV
Business management and investment
9 Business models based on strongly sustainable entrepreneurship: Insights from a systemic literature review
Herman Stål
10 Biodiversity as integral to strongly sustainable supply chains: Review and exemplars in the natural resources sectors
Anne Quarshie, Asta Salmi, Joanna Scott-Kennel and Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen
11 Sustainable investment and degrowth
Tommi Lehtonen
PART V
Identity, needs and wellbeing
12 Strongly sustainable consumption and a case of mistaken identity: A qualitative study on environmentally concerned individuals
Kristoffer Wilén and Tiina Taipale
13 Being matters: A holistic conception of wellbeing in the shift towards strongly sustainable societies
Tuula Helne
PART VI
Reconnect to the Earth
14 Relearning with permaculture: Exploring knowledges of innovation for strong sustainability
Maxim Vlasov and Zsuzsanna Vincze
15 Redesigning community as an ecovillage: Lessons from Earthaven
Todd Levasseur and Lee Warren
PART VII
Conclusion
16 Dead ends and liveable futures: A framework for sustainable change
Pasi Heikkurinen and Karl Johan Bonnedahl
Index
Karl Johan Bonnedahl, Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Sweden.
Pasi Heikkurinen, Lecturer, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK.