State of the World 2014 Governing for Sustainability
Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | State of the World
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Failing Governance, Unsustainable Planet
- 2. Understanding Governance
- 3. Governance, Sustainability, and Evolution
- 4. Ecoliteracy: Knowledge Is Not Enough
- 5. Digitization and Sustainability
- 6. Living in the Anthropocene: Business as Usual, or Compassionate Retreat?
- 7. Governing People as Members of the Earth Community
- 8. Listening to the Voices of Young and Future Generations
- 9. Advancing Ecological Stewardship Via the Commons and Human Rights
- 10. Looking Backward (Not Forward) to Environmental Justice
- 11. The Too-Polite Revolution: Understanding the Failure to Pass U.S. Climate Legislation
- 12. China’s Environmental Governance Challenge
- 13. Assessing the Outcomes of Rio+20
- 14. How Local Governments Have Become a Factor in Global Sustainability
- 15. Scrutinizing the Corporate Role in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- 16. Making Finance Serve the Real Economy
- 17. Climate Governance and the Resource Curse
- 18. The Political-Economic Foundations of a Sustainable System
- 19. The Rise of Triple-Bottom-Line Businesses
- 20. Working Toward Energy Democracy
- 21. Take the Wheel and Steer! Trade Unions and the Just Transition
- 22. A Call to Engagement