Transdisciplinary Solutions for Sustainable Development - From Planetary Management to Stewardship

This book characterises the current limitations of scientific prediction for global environmental issues. It presents a review of the epistemology of this policy field including current policy responses (e.g. to abrupt climate change) then suggests potential ethical and policy implications and resolutions. Specifically, it has developed innovative approaches to respond to these difficulties in prediction, which should also allow sustainable development policy to be more democratic, plural and open in line with Agenda 21.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Can humans manage the earth? – No! – Implications 3. Discourse Analysis – Brundtland and management 4. Discourse Analysis – Do governments want to manage the earth? – Yes! 5. Environmental Management Responses to Sustainable Development 6. Sustainable Development Theory – Moving from management to stewardship 7. Ecological Virtue – A better ethical basis for sustainable development than the ethics of market fundamentalism? 8. Democratising Global Stewardship 9. Conclusion – Environmental policy in the light of at least one metre sea level rise

About the author

Mark Charlesworth is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, Keele University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Charlesworth, Mark (Keele University Charlesworth, Charlesworth Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138743649
• ISBN: 978-1-138-74364-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology