Ecological Limits of Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development)

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Dedication
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Part I Energy, Complexity, and Livelihood
	1 Introduction: ‘Me, Myself, I’ and the Political Economy of the Sustainable Development Goals
		Alternative Modernity: Partial Re-Embedding
		Works Cited
	2 Energy and Social Complexity: A Primer in Ecological Economics
		Systems Ecology and Society
		Complex Systems Analysis
		Ecological Economics and Societal Energetics
		H.T. Odum: Energy Embodied Across Distributed and Hierarchical Flow Networks
		Steering and Channelling: Unintentional and Intentional Human Regulation of the Earth System
		Ecological Economics
		Development Goals and Levels of Reality
		Notes
		Works Cited
	3 State, Market, and Livelihood: Ideology, Politics, and Political Economy in an Era of Limits
		Disembedding, Re-Embedding, and Complexity
		Social Limits to Growth
			Karl Polanyi and More Viscous Modernity: More Embedded Economic Development
		Works Cited
	4 Core and Periphery in the Global Economy: How Does Green Politics in the ‘North’ Relate...
		Core and Periphery: From Marx and Lenin to Frank and Wallerstein
		Highly Networked Regions, Distributism, and Re-Localization as an Alternative to Globalization
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part II Basic Systems Sustaining Life
	5 Human Culture and Life On Land and Sea: Attachment and Scale in Ecology and Society
		Ecology and Society: The Problem of the ‘Complete Act’
		Individual, Community, and Social-Ecological Attachment
			Wicked Dilemma: Individual Versus Attachment
			Attachment and Social-Ecological Systems
		Mobilizing the Effects: Restorative Culture and Political Economy
			Oikos: Subsidiarity and Distributism in Ecology and Political Economy
			Grain and Scale in the Economy
		Distributive Oikos: Economics, Attachment, Ecological Edge, and Diversity
			Semi-permeable Membranes and Edges: Quantitative Complexity at Scale Versus Qualitative, Granular Complexity in Place
			Ecology and Economy: Attachment, the Commons, and Self-Organizing Pastoral Taskscapes
		Note
		Works Cited
	6 SDG 7 ‘Energy for All’: Ecological Economic Targets for an Energy Transition...
		Introduction: SDG 7, Quality of Life, and Planetary Limits
		Why SDG 7 Falls Short
			SDG 7 and the Myth of Decoupling
			Energy-affluent Societies and SDG 7
		SDG 7 and the Three Pillars of Ecological Economics
			Sustainable Scale in SDG 7
			Just Distribution in SDG 7
			Efficient Allocation in SDG 7
		Achieving a Holistic SDG 7
			A Holistic SDG 7 and the Energy Transition
			Decoupling Energy Use and Well-Being
			Governing a Post-Growth SDG 7
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	7 Livelihood and Limits: We Can Prosper Without Growth
		How Did We Get Here?
		Beyond the Biophysical
		Are We Better Off?
		Beyond Growth for Well-Being
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	8 Wicked Dilemmas of Growth and Poverty: A Case Study of Agroecology
		Food Systems
			Alternative System Case Study: Agroecology
		Alternative Targets for SDGs
		Works Cited
	9 Planetary Health and Well-Being From a Limits Perspective
		Introduction
		Human Health Is Dependent On Planetary Health
		Planetary Health Depends On a Post-Growth Transition
		Initiatives That Create Conditions for Health to Flourish Across Socio-Ecological Scales
		Soil Health
		Care Farming
		Family Care for Mental Illness
		Conclusion
		Proposed New Targets
			Indicators
			Indicators
			Indicators
		Works Cited
Part III Life and Well-Being Enhancing Systems
	10 Education, Livelihood, and the State–Market: Towards Radical Subsidiarity
		The Big History of Education
		Education in Turmoil
		Education, Modernity, and Civil Society: Paradoxes of Shared Culture and Coercion
			Education and the Loss of Language Cultures
			Standardized Education
		Horns of a Dilemma: Livelihood Education and the Civic-National Society of Individuals
		Livelihood and the State–Market in Education: The Co-Existence of Two Ontologies and Forms of Life
			Problems of Meaning for Education
			New Targets for SDG 4
		Notes
		Works Cited
	11 Removing the Burden: Valuation of the Household and Commons in the SDGs
		Women and Devalued Work
		What Happened to Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
		The Need for a Shift Away From Both Over Reliance On the State–Market...
			A Radical Polis-Oikos
		Works Cited
	12 Are There Environmental Limits to Achieving Equality Between Humans?
		Are There Biophysical Limits to Achieving Equality Between Humans?
		Is It Possible to Meet Humans Needs, in an Equitable Way, Within Planetary Biophysical Limits?
		Focusing On Over-Consumption and Extreme Wealth
		Endless Economic Growth Is Not Possible On a Finite Planet
		Mainstream Approaches to Addressing Inequality Ignore Extreme Wealth...
			Proposed New Targets for SDG #10
		Works Cited
	13 A Handmade Future: Makers, Microfabrication, and Meaning for Ecological and Resilient Production Networks
		A Brief History of Manufacturing
		Impacts of Mass Production On the Individual
		The Do-It-Yourself Alternative
			Case Study: A Handmade Future
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part IV Politics and Global Partnerships
	14 Peace and Justice Within Limits: Putting the Pressure...
		Introduction
		What Determines Violence Within States? Market-Driven...
		Democracy Versus Economic Growth Versus State Formation: The Sequence of Development
			Liberal Interventions: The Monopoly of Violence and the Legitimating ‘We Identity’
		Inclusion of Whom and in What?
		Growth, Peace, and Politics: North, West, East, and South
			Growth, Class Conflict, and Democracy in the West
			Growth and Development in the Global South
		Conclusions and Policies
			Localism, Subsidiarity, and the Circular Economy
			The Arms Trade
			Trade and Aid as a Pressure Point
			Conscription, Communitarian Solidarity, and Defensive Posture
		Works Cited
	15 Engaging Economies of Change: Equitable Partnerships for Climate Action
		Engaging Economies of Change
		Positionality
		Revealing Intersections to Transcend Crossroads
		Intersectional Feminisms and the SDGs
			Embodying Change at CANSEE 2019
		Building Relationships
		Dialogue Across Difference
		Emphasizing Local Ecological Economies
		Student Empowerment
		Public Scholarship and Community Participation
		Learning By Doing
		Focusing On Just Recoveries
		Conclusion
		Note
		Works Cited
	16 A Crisis of Identity: The UN Sustainable Development Goals Within...
		Introduction
		The State of the SDGs Is a Reflection of the State of the System
		The Ability of the SDGs to Uproot the Roots of Our Crises
		SDGs Need to Embrace the Evolution of the Protection of Life (Sustainability)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	17 Conclusion: From ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ to ‘Ecological Livelihood Goals’
		Navigating the Long Now
		Complexity and Political Economy
		Ecological Livelihood Goals: Trade-Offs and Wicked Dilemmas
		Works Cited
Index