Books in the Routledge Studies in Sustainability series

This book provides information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries. It gives a wide ranging policy options based on empirical case studies and comparative policy and regulatory analysis.

Transition to sustainability is still stuck. The human, individual, inner as well as the cultural, immaterial aspects are often left untreated. This book argues that increased research into the emerging field of personal sustainability will help jump start progress towards a sustainable world.

This book looks at institutional reforms for the use of resources toward a sustainable future in East Asia. The book evaluates the ripple effects of environmental and resource policies on each country's economy and clarifies the direction of institutional reform in energy systems, resources, and land use for a sustainable future.

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and the teaching challenges related to environmental and sustainability education.

This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future.

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban Social Sustainability provides an in-depth insight into the discourse and argues that every urban intervention has a social sustainability dimension which needs to be taken into consideration, and incorporated into a comprehensive and cohesive `urban agendä that is built on three principles of recognition, integration and monitoring.

This edited volume interrogates the trade-offs made between the three arenas of sustainability in the implementation of innovative solutions in cities, and in doing so offers a new perspective on the politics of urban planning innovation and urban sustainability.

The SHES approach to sustainability education relies on complexity-based systems thinking that transcends disciplinary boundaries. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the SHES approach, including the rationale and theory behind it, its pedagogy and ways to support the approach through administration.

This book explores South Africäs progress in transitioning to a low-carbon, resource-efficient and pro-employment development path through reflections on the critical policy, economic, technological, social and environmental drivers.

Based on the assumption of strong sustainability, this edited book presents practical and theoretical alternatives to today's unsustainable societies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, ecological economics, environmental governance and policy, and sustainable development.

This book sets out a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses.

Contributors provide insights from the humanities, the social sciences, and the latest developments in evolutionary science to cast new light onto how the Nordic countries have forged sustainable, inclusive, and productive communities.

The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities. This book develops the idea of environmental obligations as long-term responsibilities in the context of human rights. It proposes that human rights require recognition that, in the face of unsustainable conduct, future human persons are exposed and vulnerable. It explores the obstacles for long-term responsibilities that human rights law provides at the level of international and national law and challenges the question of whether lifestyle restrictions are enforceable in view of liberties and levels of wellbeing typically seen as protected by human rights.

Transition to sustainability is still stuck. The human, individual, inner as well as the cultural, immaterial aspects are often left untreated. This book argues that increased research into the emerging field of personal sustainability will help jump start progress towards a sustainable world.

This interdisciplinary collection of chapters provides a basis for understanding the debates surrounding the provision of sustainability for future generations from a diverse range of theoretical standpoints. Rights to a Green Future? sets out the key questions involved in this complex ethical issue.

This interdisciplinary collection of chapters provides a basis for understanding the debates surrounding the provision of sustainability for future generations from a diverse range of theoretical standpoints. Rights to a Green Future? sets out the key questions involved in this complex ethical issue.

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition. It frames the ongoing transformation in terms of a "battle of modernities" with the emerging vision of ecomodernity as the final destination. It also offers a systematic exploration of the potential for extensive transformation of carbon-intensive sectors ¿ with a focus on energy and transport ¿ towards a low or post-carbon economy. The book does so in a comparative perspective, by pointing to a diversity of techno-economic and institutional solutions in the mature Western economies, and in the rapidly growing East and developing South.

This book advances thinking on how to understand the emergence of a green state in the context of climate and sustainability transitions. The book theorizes the green state from political theory, feminist theory, post-structuralism, governance and institutional theory. It empirically examines the performance of states and institutional responses to the sustainable and climate transitions in the European and Nordic context in particular. It critically explores different principles guiding the emergence of the green state and for example its linkages to the welfare state.

This book examines the motivational and institutional obstacles standing in the way of a consistent politics of sustainability and to look for strategies to overcome them.

Drawing on more than 15 years of experience with transdisciplinary research at the University of Technology Sydney¿s Institute for Sustainable Futures, this book is about the theory and practice of transdisciplinary research, with a specific focus on its role in facilitating change towards a thriving and sustainable human civilisation. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability, qualitative research methods, environmental impact assessment and development studies.

This book advances thinking on how to understand the emergence of a green state in the context of climate and sustainability transitions. The book theorizes the green state from political theory, feminist theory, post-structuralism, governance and institutional theory. It empirically examines the performance of states and institutional responses to the sustainable and climate transitions in the European and Nordic context in particular. It critically explores different principles guiding the emergence of the green state and for example its linkages to the welfare state.

The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities. States within the international arena hold each other responsible for doing just that and support or interfere where necessary. States are to protect these essential human vulnerabilities, even when this is not a matter of self-interest. This function of human rights is recognized in contexts of intervention, genocide, humanitarian aid and development. This book develops the idea of environmental obligations as long-term responsibilities in the context of human rights. It proposes that human rights require recognition that, in the face of unsustainable conduct, future human persons are exposed and vulnerable. It explores the obstacles for long-term responsibilities that human rights law provides at the level of international and national law and challenges the question of whether lifestyle restrictions are enforceable in view of liberties and levels of wellbeing typically seen as protected by human rights. The book will be of interest to postgraduates studying Human Rights, Sustainability, Law and Philosophy.

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition. It frames the ongoing transformation in terms of a "battle of modernities" with the emerging vision of ecomodernity as the final destination. It also offers a systematic exploration of the potential for extensive transformation of carbon-intensive sectors ¿ with a focus on energy and transport ¿ towards a low or post-carbon economy. The book does so in a comparative perspective, by pointing to a diversity of techno-economic and institutional solutions in the mature Western economies, and in the rapidly growing East and developing South.

Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions. This book offers a fresh approach to practical and methodological concerns in transdisciplinary environmental and sustainability studies. It illustrates methodological means by which researchers, professionals, and decision-makers can address complex environmental issues.

Sustainable consumption is an emerging research topic in the academic discourse on sustainable development and global environmental change. Informed by a number of disciplinary perspectives, this book is structured around four key themes in sustainable consumption research: Living, Moving, Dwelling and Futures. The collection successfully balances theoretical insights with grounded case studies in several forms of sustainability, such as mobility, heating, washing and eating practices and concludes by exploring future sustainable consumption research pathways and policy recommendations.

This book examines the motivational and institutional obstacles standing in the way of a consistent politics of sustainability and to look for strategies to overcome them. It is an interdisciplinary contribution to the joint effort to meet the theoretical and practical challenges posed by climate change and other impending global perils.

This book extends and enriches the possibilities for social practice theories to inform sustainability programs and policies seeking to achieve social change. More specially, it documents how social practice theories could be used to inform relevant methods and strategies for intervention. In doing so it differs from existing work because it directly tackles a key criticism directed at social practice theorists that to date has remained largely unchallenged.