What Next for Sustainable Development?

Edited by James Meadowcroft, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, David Banister, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies, School of Geography and the Environment and Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK, Erling Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oluf Langhelle, University of Stavanger, Kristin Linnerud and Geoffrey Gilpin, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

'This book is a masterful round up of 30 years of sustainable development thinking by some of the topic's most renowned and deep thinkers. The authors expose the progress made in the last 30 years, but also many gaps, flaws and more dangerous trends accompanying our times. Sustainable development now involves more forward and critical ideas, such as de-growth, critiques of fossil capitalism, insistence on equity and redistribution, moving towards ethics of care and eco-social policies focused on satisfying human needs within planetary boundaries. This book thus is a timely summary and renewed introduction to a complex and engaging body of thought, a path forward for the possibility of global human progress in troubled times.'--Julia Steinberger, University of Leeds, UK'The editors have brought together a distinguished international team of social scientists from different disciplines to assess the legacy of the landmark Brundtland report, Our Common Future (1987), along with the present and future prospects for sustainable development in the Anthropocene. The world is at a critical ecological juncture. This book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand how to accelerate the transition to a more equitable development path that can safe-guard both local ecosystems and Earth Systems.'--Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia'Is sustainable development ''everything'' or ''something''? This edited volume makes a very important contribution to the discourse on critically analyzing the content, process and outcomes of sustainable development politics and policies; a discourse very different from the United Nations sponsored program for promoting sustainable development, which has been seriously ''stymied'' and ''diluted'' at the international and national levels of implementation.'--Carlo Aall, Western Norway Research Institute, and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

• Contents:ForwardPreface1. Introduction James Meadowcroft, David Banister, Erling Holden, Oluf Langhelle, Kristin Linnerud and Geoffrey GilpinPart I Setting the Context2. Our Common Future in Earth Systems perspectiveSimon Dalby3. A normative model of sustainable development: how do countries comply?Kristin Linnerud, Erling Holden, Geoffrey Gilpin and Morten SimonsenPart II Negotiating environmental limits4. The global sustainability challenges in the future: the energy use, materials supply, pollution, climate change and inequality nexusHarald Ulrik Sverdrup5. Implications of deep decarbonisation pathways for sustainable developmentSabine Fuss6. Brundtland+30: the continuing need for an indicator of environmental sustainabilityPaul Ekins and Arkaitz UsubiagaPart III Equity, needs and development7. Sustainability and redistributionIris Borowy8. Necessities and luxuries: how to combine redistribution with sustainable consumptionIan Gough9. Taming equity in multilateral climate politics: A shift from responsibilities to capacitiesSonja Klinsky and Aarti GuptaPart IV Transitions and transformation10. The Transition to Sustainability as Interbeing . . . or: from oncology to ontologyFelix Rauschmayer11. Taking climate change and transformations to sustainability seriouslyKaren O’Brien12. Sustainability and the politics of transformations: from control to care in moving beyond ModernityAndy Stirling13. Politics and technology: deploying the state to accelerate socio-technical transitions for sustainabilityOluf Langhelle, James Meadowcroft, and Daniel RosenbloomPart V Facing the future14. Beyond limits: making policy in a climate changed worldEva Lövbrand15. A Future for Sustainable Development?David Banister16. What Next for Sustainable Development?David Banister, Erling Holden, Oluf Langhelle, Kristin Linnerud, James Meadowcroft and Geoffrey GilpinIndex