Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice

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(2010), "Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 21 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2010.08321eae.002

Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice

Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 21, Issue 5

Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling,Earthscan,London,April 2010,ISBN 9781849710930,224 pp.,£19.99

This book lays out a new “pathways approach” to address sustainability challenges in today’s dynamic world. Through an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, uncertainty, differing narratives and the values-based aims of sustainability, the pathways approach illustrates how some approaches are dominant, even though they do not produce the desired results, and how to create successful alternative “pathways” of responding to the challenges we face. As well as offering new ways of thinking about sustainability, the book also suggests a series of practical ways forward – in tools and methods, forms of political engagement, and styles of knowledge-making and communication. Throughout the book, the practicalities of the pathways approach are illustrated using four case studies: water in dryland India, agricultural seeds in Africa, responses to epidemic disease and energy systems/climate change. More information is available at: www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=102326