State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Failing Governance, Unsustainable Planet....Pages 3-19
Understanding Governance....Pages 20-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Governance, Sustainability, and Evolution....Pages 31-40
Ecoliteracy: Knowledge Is Not Enough....Pages 41-52
Digitization and Sustainability....Pages 53-62
Living in the Anthropocene: Business as Usual, or Compassionate Retreat?....Pages 63-71
Governing People as Members of the Earth Community....Pages 72-81
Listening to the Voices of Young and Future Generations....Pages 82-90
Advancing Ecological Stewardship Via the Commons and Human Rights....Pages 91-104
Looking Backward (Not Forward) to Environmental Justice....Pages 105-114
The Too-Polite Revolution: Understanding the Failure to Pass U.S. Climate Legislation....Pages 115-128
China’s Environmental Governance Challenge....Pages 129-137
Assessing the Outcomes of Rio+20....Pages 138-151
How Local Governments Have Become a Factor in Global Sustainability....Pages 152-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Scrutinizing the Corporate Role in the Post-2015 Development Agenda....Pages 165-173
Making Finance Serve the Real Economy....Pages 174-180
Climate Governance and the Resource Curse....Pages 181-190
The Political-Economic Foundations of a Sustainable System....Pages 191-202
The Rise of Triple-Bottom-Line Businesses....Pages 203-214
Working Toward Energy Democracy....Pages 215-227
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Take the Wheel and Steer! Trade Unions and the Just Transition....Pages 228-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
A Call to Engagement....Pages 241-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-294