Sustainable Places

David Adamson is an Honorary Professor at the College of Health, University of Newcastle, Australia, and Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales, UK. Lorena Axinte is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK. Mark Lang is an Honorary University Associate at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK. Terry Marsden is an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK.

"In the context of the multiple and conjoined crises, contradictions, contingencies, and extremities facing our planet, Sustainable Places is an original and important statement on the power of place to act as that fulcrum of hope to shape a better foundational world. Rich in conceptual framings and empirical nuances, this book is recommended reading for boffins, bureaucrats and all parties interested in understanding why and where geography increasingly matters. Carbon-based neoliberal global capitalism is in crisis, but there are alternatives".Professor Martin Jones, Vice-Chancellor, Staffordshire University"The Deep Place approach offers hope at a moment when the decades-long push to globalise everything is crumbling under the pressures of war, disease, and social tensions of private wealth and social impoverishment. Having long pioneered theory and praxis of sustainable place-making, the authors help us shift away from a negative, fearful mindset --- one that fails to see the possibility to change the institutions that inflict harms on one another and on earthly conditions of all life. Beginning with each specific place, human groups can reconnect in life-enhancing ways both within places of all sizes, and across places. This work offers inspiring examples of embryonic practices to guide democratic transitions towards collective wealth and wellbeing."Professor Harriet Friedmann, University of Toronto"The book is a helpful distillation of what elsewhere might be called a conjunctural approachvi, knitting together the local and global, the political, economic, social and ecological, in the context of intersecting and accelerating systemic crises, with Place as the uniting theme."Mark H Burton, Steady State Manchester

• Part One1. Global crisis: our moment of reckoning2. Green Deals and a new economic settlement3. Place and social structure4. Environment and place: understanding the socio-natural relations of the Anthropocene5. The cultural place6. Deep Place: from concepts to praxisPart Two7. Understanding places: introducing Deep Place8. Case studies: UK9. Case studies: Australia and Vanuatu10. Finding a regenerative social, economic, and political orderIndex