African futures: towards a sustainable emergence?
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category :
ISBN : 9231001736
Our Common Future
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780195531916
Book Description
Land and Sustainable Development in Africa
Author : Kojo Sebastian Amanor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848132611
Book Description
This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice. The authors critically examine contemporary neoliberal market-led reforms and the legacy of colonialism on the land question. They argue that debates on sustainable development should be placed in the context of structural interests, access and equity, rather than technical management of land and resources. Additionally, they show that these structural factors cannot be transformed by institutional reform based on notions of elective democracy, community participation, and market-reform, but require a far more radical programme to redress the injustices of the colonial system that continue today. The book advocates a commitment to building sustainable livelihoods for farmers, calling for a redistribution of land and natural resources to challenge existing economic relations and frameworks for development.
Shaping the future we want
Author : Buckler, Carolee
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 9231000535
Book Description
Sustainable Futures
Author : Raphael Kaplinsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509547843
Book Description
Long before the pandemic, economies across the world were in trouble, with growth slowing across the board. This downturn coincided with growing inequality and social exclusion. Rising political dissatisfaction with ruling elites fuelled the rise of populism. Add to this the alarming environmental emergency and few can deny we live in a time of multiple sustainability crises. While this conclusion can lead to despair, in this broad-ranging book Raphael Kaplinsky, a leading development policy analyst, argues that the future is not necessarily bleak. Interrogating the causes and nature of the systemic crises we are living through, he shows how the challenges which we now face mirror previous historical epochs, in which dominant ‘techno-economic’ paradigms flourish, mature and run into crisis. In each case, decisive action is required to move to a more economically and socially sustainable world. In our time, we are witnessing the exhaustion of the Mass Production paradigm. How we herald and manage the transition to the next paradigm – that of Information and Communications Technologies – will determine our capacity to build a more prosperous, equitable and environmentally sustainable world. This book sets out an integrated agenda for action by multiple stakeholders to achieve this end.
Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Author : Peter Blaze Corcoran
Publisher : Brill Wageningen Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 9789086863037
Book Description
This edited collection invites educational practitioners and theorists to speculate on - and craft visions for - the future of environmental and sustainability education. It explores what educational methods and practices might exist on the horizon, waiting for discovery and implementation. A global array of authors imagines alternative futures for the field and attempts to rethink environmental and sustainability education institutionally, intellectually, and pedagogically. These thought leaders chart how emerging modes of critical speculation might function as a means to remap and redesign the future of environmental and sustainability education today. Previous volumes within this United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development series have responded to the complexity of environmental education in our contemporary moment with concepts such as social learning, intergenerational learning, and transformative leadership for sustainable futures. 'Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education' builds on this earlier work - as well as the work of others. It seeks to foster modes of intellectual engagement with ecological futures in the Anthropocene; to develop resilient, adaptable pedagogies as a hedge against future ecological uncertainties; and to spark discussion concerning how futures thinking can generate theoretical and applied innovations within the field.
Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa
Author : Timothy Gbenga Nubi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9813344245
Book Description
There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.
Emergent Strategy
Author : adrienne maree brown
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1849352615
Book Description
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017
Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789211013689
Book Description
The aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.
The Emergent African Union Law
Author : Olufemi Amao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198862156
Book Description
This edited collection explores the role of law in the regional integration effort in Africa, and assesses the extent to which African Union law is having in impact on domestic law across the continent. It analyses how the African Union is engendering new norms and standards, in areas such as economic regulation and democratic constitutionalism.--
