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Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development


About the Series

This series uniquely brings together original and cutting-edge research on Sustainable Development. The books in this series tackle difficult and important issues in Sustainable Development including values and ethics; sustainability in higher education; climate compatible development; resilience; capitalism and de-growth; sustainable urban development; gender and participation; and well-being.

Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, the series promotes interdisciplinary research for an international readership. The series was recommended in the Guardian’s suggested reads for Development and Environment.

The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from young authors. To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Grace Harrison ([email protected]).

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Greening Higher Education in Europe Institutional Transitions to Sustainable Development

Greening Higher Education in Europe: Institutional Transitions to Sustainable Development

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Magdalena Popowska
August 29, 2024

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the advances that have taken place in European higher education institutions (HEIs) over the last twenty years in response to the challenges of sustainable development. In recent years, there has been a visible shift towards sustainable development, ...

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Bruno Carrasco, Hanif A. Rahemtulla, Rainer Rohdewohld
May 27, 2024

Since its adoption in 2015, the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development has shaped not only international development cooperation but also the design of national trajectories for social and economic development. In tandem with other global agendas adopted that year (such as the Paris Agreement on ...

The Sustainable Development Goals Diffusion and Contestation in Asia and Europe

The Sustainable Development Goals: Diffusion and Contestation in Asia and Europe

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Paul Bacon, Mina Chiba, Frederik Ponjaert
May 27, 2024

There have been significant efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at multiple levels of governance across all regions of the world. However, the manner in which the global governance norms underlying the SDGs are actually being diffused is under-researched and not well ...

Good Education in a Fragile World The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education

Good Education in a Fragile World: The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education

1st Edition

Edited By Alan Bainbridge, Nicola Kemp
December 18, 2023

This edited collection aims to provoke discussion around the most important question for contemporary higher education – what kind of education (in terms of purpose, pedagogy and policy) is needed to restore the health and wellbeing of the planet and ourselves now and for generations to come? The ...

Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence Critical Reflections on the Uncertain Future of Peace

Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence: Critical Reflections on the Uncertain Future of Peace

1st Edition

Edited By Timothy Donais, Alistair D. Edgar, Kirsten Van Houten
August 09, 2023

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way point of the Sustainable Development Goals implementation period, what impact Goal 16 has made, or may yet make, toward reducing violence in ‘all its ...

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Planetary Well-Being

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Planetary Well-Being

1st Edition

Edited By Merja Elo, Jonne Hytönen, Sanna Karkulehto, Teea Kortetmäki, Janne S. Kotiaho, Mikael Puurtinen, Miikka Salo
June 26, 2023

This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection presents planetary well-being as a new cross-disciplinary concept to foster ...

Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development Lessons from Ecuador

Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Ecuador

1st Edition

By Natasha Chassagne
May 31, 2023

Until recently, the concept of Buen Vivir has only been loosely articulated by practising communities and in progressive policy in countries like Ecuador. What it actually means has been unclear, and in the case of policy, contradictory. As such there has been a lack of understanding about exactly ...

Ecological Limits of Development Living with the Sustainable Development Goals

Ecological Limits of Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals

1st Edition

By Kaitlin Kish, Stephen Quilley
May 31, 2023

Embracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume uses the technical tools from ecological economics to recast the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Ecological Livelihood Goals – policy agendas and trajectories that seek to reconcile the social and spatial mobility and ...

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Socioecological Challenges Sustainable Transformations Globally and in the EU

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Socioecological Challenges: Sustainable Transformations Globally and in the EU

1st Edition

Edited By Anders Siig Andersen, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Thomas Budde Christensen, Lars Hulgaard
April 07, 2023

This book explores interdisciplinary perspectives on socioecological challenges and offers innovative solutions at both a European and global level. This book critically reflects on the latest scientific knowledge regarding the increasing instability of the Earth System caused by human activities ...

Beyond the Blue Economy Creative Industries and Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States

Beyond the Blue Economy: Creative Industries and Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States

1st Edition

By Peter Rudge
January 09, 2023

This book argues for a broader approach to sustainable growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Small island states such as those in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific face significant and growing threats from climate change, increasing political and social volatility, and ...

The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability

The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability

1st Edition

By Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson
January 09, 2023

This book draws attention to political aspects of sustainable development goal-setting, exploring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global-national nexus during their first five years. After broad global deliberation and political negotiations, the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs were ...

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

1st Edition

By Donald G. Reid
July 07, 2022

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author’s previous work, this book discusses whether social progress is linear ...

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