François Mancebo & Ignacy Sachs 
Transitions to Sustainability [PDF ebook] 

This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life? Meeting this challenge requires an inclusive approach of sustainability. It is a matter of designing a new social contract: Sustainability requires more than developing the right markets, institutions and metrics, it requires social momentum. To do so, many issues need a clear and complete answer: How to link social justice with sustainability policies? What governance tools to do so? What linkage between one decision-making level and the other? These are major issues to design sound transitions to sustainability.

Tabella dei contenuti

Introduction (F. Mancebo).- Part 1 – Meeting the Challenges of the Anthropocene: Back to Planning?.- Chapter 1. Entering the Anthropocene: The Twofold Challenge of Climate Change and Poverty Eradication (I. Sachs).- Chapter 2. Towards a New Development Planning: The Pre-eminence of Political Choices (C. Comeliau).- Chapter 3. Economic Democracy: Meeting Some Management Challenges – Changing Scenarios in Brazil (L. Dowbor).- Chapter 4. Norms, Rules and Sustainable Planning: Who Said What About Norms? (J. M. Church).- Part 2 – Towards a New Social Contract.- Chapter 5. Rousseau, Rio and the Green Economy (C. Lopes).- Chapter 6. Issue Linkage and the Prospects for SDGs’ contribution to Sustainability (P. M. Haas).- Chapter 7. Putting the Individual at the Center of Development: Indicators of Well-being for a New Social Contract (A. L. Dahl).- Chapter 8. Insights for a Better Future in an Unfair World – Combining Social Justice with Sustainability (F. Mancebo).- Part 3 – Some Governance Issues. 9. The Legitimation of Global Energy Governance: A normative exploration (S. I. Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen).- Chapter 10. From Government to Multi-Stakeholder Governance for Sustainable Mobility (M. Dijk).- Chapter 11. Territorial Resources and Sustainability: Analyzing Development in a ‘post-Fordist’ scenario (B. Pecqueur & P. F. Vieira).- Rheims Sustainability Vision.