Sustainability

Instead of providing a shopping list of textbook definitions of sustainability, the book will be a highly readable critical evaluation of the concept's evolution and use in politics, business and society.

1. Introduction 2. Historical Reflection - A Brief genealogy of sustainable development 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Imagining the World as Finite Ecosystem and Livelihood in Need of Care 2.3. The Global Rise of Sustainability - From environmental angst to equity to economics 2.4.The Contemporary Fragmentation of Sustainability 3. Sustainability and Climate Change 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Towards a Science of Climate Change 3.3. Dimensions of Unsustainability 3.4. Climate Change as a Discursive Field 3.4.1. From Science to Global Policy 3.4.2. The Controversy Around Climate Change 3.4.3. Towards the Dominance of Climate Change 3.5. Climate Change Between Mitigation & Adaptation 4. Sustainability and Energy Systems 4.1. Introduction 4.2. The Formation of Modern Energy Systems 4.3. Dimensions of Unsustainability 4.4. Renewable Energies as a Response to Finite Resources 4.4.1. Limits to Energy Resources 4.4.2. Renewable Energy Without Limits 4.5. Safe Energy for Development 4.6. The Business Case for Sustainable Energy 5. Sustainability and Food Systems 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The Formation of Modern Food Systems 5.3. Dimensions of Unsustainability 5.4. Ecological Agriculture as Caring for Nature 5.5. Agriculture, Food, and the Quest for Equity 5.6. The Agricultural Green Economy 6. Sustainability as Transformation and Reflexivity 6.1. Making Sense of the Essential Diversity of Sustainability 6.2. Sustainability as Epistemic Commons and Experimental Transformation 6.3. Infrastructures for Sustainability 6.4. Caring for Sustainability, Caring for Transformation