1st Edition

Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development Reconsidering Policy, Economics and Accounting

168 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society but it has also played a dominant role in a period where problems have been aggravated. A... Read more

1. Democracy as a lead concept in dealing with sustainable development

2. Some fundamentals of sustainability economics and positional analysis

3. Mainstream economics and alternative perspectives in a political power game

4. Positional Analysis as an approach to decision-making, accounting and democracy

5. On the need for broadening out and opening up accounting

6. Positional Analysis in relation to other pluralist accounting practices

7. Positional analysis in the context of sustainability ethics

8. Positional analysis and pluralistic literacy at the science/policy interface

9. Democracy, sustainability and positional analysis

10. Philosophy, ethics and positional analysis

Biography

Judy Brown is a Professor of Accounting at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Peter Söderbaum is Professor Emeritus in Ecological Economics at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.

Małgorzata Dereniowska is an Associated Member of GREQAM-AMSE, Aix-Marseille University, France.