1st Edition
Ecological Limits of Development Living with the Sustainable Development Goals
Part 1: Energy, Complexity, and Livelihood
1. Introduction: 'Me, myself, I' and the political economy of the Sustainable Development Goals
2. Energy and Social Complexity: A primer in ecological economics
3. State, Market and Livelihood: Ideology, politics and political economy in an era of limits
4. Core and periphery in the global economy: how does green politics in the ‘north’ relate to development in the global South
Part 2: Basic Systems of Sustaining Life
5. Human Culture and Life on Land and Sea: Attachment and Scale in Ecology and Society
6. "Energy for All": Ecological Economic Targets for an Energy Transition that Centers Well-being within Planetary Boundaries
Rigo Melgar and Matthew Burke
7. Livelihood and Limits: We Can Prosper Without Growth
8. Wicked Dilemmas of Growth and Poverty: A Case Study of Agroecology
9. SDG 3, Good Health and Well-being from a Limits Perspective
Katharine Zywert
Part 3: Life and Wellbeing Enhancing Systems
10. Education, Livelihood and the Market-State: Towards Radical Subsidiarity
11. Removing the Burden: Valuation of the household and commons in the SDGs
12. Are there environmental limits to achieving equality between humans?
Jen Gobby, Samantha Mailhot, Rachel Ivey
13. A Handmade Future: Makers, microfabrication, and meaning for ecological and resilient production networks
Part 4: Politics and Global Partnerships
14. Peace and Justice within Limits: putting the pressure on geopolitics, development and social cohesion
15. Engaging Economies of Change: Equitable Partnerships for Climate Action
Sophia Rose Sanniti and Sarah-Louise Ruder
16. A Crisis of Identity: the UN Sustainable Development Goals within an Unsustainable Law and Governance Framework
Kathryn Gwiazdon
17. Ecological Livelihood Goals
Biography
Kaitlin Kish is Research Associate for the Ecological Footprint Initiative at York University in collaboration with the Global Footprint Network and Lecturer of Ecological Economics at the University of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii Institute, Canada. She is Vice- President – Programs for the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, a research fellow with Economics for the Anthropocene at McGill University, and held a doctoral research fellowship with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo.
Stephen Quilley is Associate Professor of Social and Environmental Innovation in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Trained in historical sociology and political economy, he has previously held tenured positions at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Keele University in the UK, and a lectureship and a research fellowship at the Moscow School of Economic and Social Science and the University of Manchester.
