Introducing Just Sustainabilities :Policy, Planning, and Practice ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Policy, Planning, and Practice

Publication series :1

Author: Agyeman   Julian  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781780324074

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781780324098

Subject: F06 A branch of economics science;P9 Natural Geography;X2 Social and Environment

Keyword: 自然地理学,社会学,社会与环境

Language: ENG

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Description

This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability, with a focus on solutions-oriented policy and planning initiatives that specifically address issues of equity and justice within the context of developing sustainable communities.

Chapter

1.1 Carbon dioxide intensity of GDP across nations: 1980–2006

1.2 Only in its early stages does economic development boost life expectancy

1.3 Life expectancy is related to income inequality in rich countries

1.4 UK Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) contrasted with GDP per capita, 1950–96

1.5 User and professional roles in the design and delivery of services

1.6 Theoretical model of relations among ten motivational types of values

1.7 The identity transition

1.8 Health and social problems are closely related to inequality in rich countries

1.9 Changes in the ecological footprint per person in high-, middle and low-income countries, 1961–2008

1.10 Beyond the boundary

1.11 A safe and just space for humanity to thrive in: a first illustration

1.1 Needs and satisfiers in Max-Neef’s model of human-scale development

1.2 Beyond the limits: global limits and required reductions in resource consumption

2.1 Projects and policies for community food security

1 | Introducing just sustainabilities

Why just sustainabilities?

Toward just sustainabilities

1.1 Carbon dioxide intensity of GDP across nations: 1980–2006

1.2 Only in its early stages does economic development boost life expectancy

1.3 Life expectancy is related to income inequality in rich countries

1.4 UK Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) contrasted with GDP per capita, 1950–96

1.5 User and professional roles in the design and delivery of services

Box: Food justice

Table 1.1 Needs and satisfiers in Max-Neef’s model of human-scale development

1.6 Theoretical model of relations among ten motivational types of values

Consumerist riots?

1.7 The identity transition

1.8 Health and social problems are closely related to inequality in rich countries

1.9 Changes in the ecological footprint per person in high-, middle- and low-incomecountries, 1961–2008

1.10 Beyond the boundary

Table 1.2 Beyond the limits: global limits and required reductions in resource consumption

1.11 A safe and just space for humanity to thrive in: a first illustration

Conclusions

2 | Food

Introduction

‘The local’

There is nothing inherent about scale

Politics and heterogeneity within ‘the local’

New agricultures: race, class, culture, and ‘the local’

The urban farm as ‘plantation’?

Thinking beyond the local

Case study: food policy councils

Table 2.1 Projects and policies for community food security

Conclusions

3 | Space and place

Public spaces, places, and place-making

Streets and streetscapes

Changing perspectives on moving through space: fewer cars, more sharing?

Conclusions

4 | Culture

Introduction

Interculturalism

Interculturalism and culturally inclusive space: challenges and opportunities

Cultural competency: towards culturally inclusive practice

Conclusions

5 | Conclusions

Quality of life

Recognition

Just sustainabilities: policy, planning, and practice, and the implications of reformist change or system transformation

Box: The Occupy movement

Notes

References

Index

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