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Just Transitions
Explorations of sustainability in an unfair world
M SWILLING & E ANNECKE
Current economic growth strategies around the world are rapidly depleting natural resources and eco-systems. Just Transitions provides an overview of these challenges from a global South perspective. How do developing countries eradicate poverty via economic development while encountering the consequences of global warming and dwindling supplies of clean water, productive soils, cheap oil, minerals and other resources? This book considers a just transition which reconciles the sustainable use of nature resources with a pervasive commitment to suffi ciency (where over-consumers are satisfied with less so that under-consumers can secure enough). Case studies drawn from Africa detail the challenges, but they are set in the context of global trends. The authors conclude with their experience of building a community that aspires to live sustainably.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mark Swilling is Professor in the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch, co-ordinator of the postgraduate programme in Sustainable Development, Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute, and a member of the International Resource Panel convened by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Eve Annecke is founding director of the Sustainability Institute (SI) and co-founder of the Lynedoch EcoVillage. She leads the SI focus on child-centred sustainable communities, and teaches at master’s level on sustainability, leadership and environmental ethics.
SUITABLE FOR
Policy-makers (politicians, government officials), business leaders and entrepreneurs, students of sustainability science and development economics, academics and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, development practitioners involved in a wide range of sectors and media workers.
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