Dynamic Sustainabilities
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and...
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| author | Leach, Melissa Stirling, Andrew Charles Scoones, Ian |
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| description | Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, and what can be done about it? How might we understand and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water scarcity in dryland India? In the context of climate change, how might seed systems help African farmers meet their needs, and how might appropriate energy strategies be developed? This book lays out a new 'pathways approach' to address sustainability challenges such as these in today's dynamic world. Through an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, uncertainty, differing narratives and the values-based aims of sustainability, the pathways approach allows us to see how some approaches are dominant, even though they do not produce the desired results, and how to create successful alternative 'pathways' of responding to the challenges we face. As well as offering new ways of thinking about sustainability, the book also suggests a series of practical ways forward - in tools and methods, forms of political engagement, and styles of knowledge-making and communication. Throughout the book, the practicalities of the pathways approach are illustrated using four case studies: water in dryland India, agricultural seeds in Africa, responses to epidemic disease and energy systems/climate change. Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1599462025-05-20T06:31:09Z Dynamic Sustainabilities Leach, Melissa Stirling, Andrew Charles Scoones, Ian incomplete knowledge avian influenza adaptive governance pathways approach haemorrhagic fevers Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers Social Ecological Technological Systems Gm1 Gm2 Gm3 Agro Ecosystems Analysis Energy Policy Haemorrhagic Fevers Energy Systems Adaptive Governance Dryland India Pathways Approach Participatory Rural Appraisal Civil Society Avian Influenza Empowering Designs Gm Crop Reflexive Governance Gm Food Outbreak Narrative Energy Sustainability thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHV Applied physics::PHVG Geophysics thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, and what can be done about it? How might we understand and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water scarcity in dryland India? In the context of climate change, how might seed systems help African farmers meet their needs, and how might appropriate energy strategies be developed? This book lays out a new 'pathways approach' to address sustainability challenges such as these in today's dynamic world. Through an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, uncertainty, differing narratives and the values-based aims of sustainability, the pathways approach allows us to see how some approaches are dominant, even though they do not produce the desired results, and how to create successful alternative 'pathways' of responding to the challenges we face. As well as offering new ways of thinking about sustainability, the book also suggests a series of practical ways forward - in tools and methods, forms of political engagement, and styles of knowledge-making and communication. Throughout the book, the practicalities of the pathways approach are illustrated using four case studies: water in dryland India, agricultural seeds in Africa, responses to epidemic disease and energy systems/climate change. Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 2025-05-20T06:31:09Z 2025-05-20T06:31:09Z 2025-05-19T07:29:48Z 2010 book ONIX_20250519T091213_9781136541674_29 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102092 9781136541674 9781849710923 9781136541667 9781849710930 9781849775069 9781136541629 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159946 eng Pathways to Sustainability open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102092/1/9781136541674.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781849775069 10.4324/9781849775069 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 081cbd50-e338-422c-9397-2db85421f7ee 9781136541674 9781849710923 9781136541667 9781849710930 9781849775069 9781136541629 Routledge 232 Oxford [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | incomplete knowledge avian influenza adaptive governance pathways approach haemorrhagic fevers Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers Social Ecological Technological Systems Gm1 Gm2 Gm3 Agro Ecosystems Analysis Energy Policy Haemorrhagic Fevers Energy Systems Adaptive Governance Dryland India Pathways Approach Participatory Rural Appraisal Civil Society Avian Influenza Empowering Designs Gm Crop Reflexive Governance Gm Food Outbreak Narrative Energy Sustainability thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHV Applied physics::PHVG Geophysics thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences Leach, Melissa Stirling, Andrew Charles Scoones, Ian Dynamic Sustainabilities |
| title | Dynamic Sustainabilities |
| title_full | Dynamic Sustainabilities |
| title_fullStr | Dynamic Sustainabilities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dynamic Sustainabilities |
| title_short | Dynamic Sustainabilities |
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| topic | incomplete knowledge avian influenza adaptive governance pathways approach haemorrhagic fevers Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers Social Ecological Technological Systems Gm1 Gm2 Gm3 Agro Ecosystems Analysis Energy Policy Haemorrhagic Fevers Energy Systems Adaptive Governance Dryland India Pathways Approach Participatory Rural Appraisal Civil Society Avian Influenza Empowering Designs Gm Crop Reflexive Governance Gm Food Outbreak Narrative Energy Sustainability thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHV Applied physics::PHVG Geophysics thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences |
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