Overview
- Outlines a series of economic and development policy principles suitable for the post-Covid era
- Focuses on the five pillars of sustainability
- Provides a framework for policymakers, politicians, community groups and industry
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Longer term thinking and new approaches to development and prosperity have never been more urgently required. Since 2020, the precarity of the global economy, links between ecological destruction and public health and disparities in levels of exposure and vulnerability to systemic disruption have all been thrown into stark relief. In this book the authors put forward a series of principles on which economic and development policy for the post-Covid era should be developed. These are outlined as five 'pillars' through which to (re-)build a shared prosperity in the aftermath of the Covid-19 global shock. The five pillars are an ecological prosperity (pillar one), a decarbonized economy (pillar two), a shared (cost) burden (pillar three), a transformative social sustainability (pillar four) and a just resilience (pillar five). The book provides a framework through which policymakers, decision-makers, politicians, community groups and the corporate sphere might begin to consider, map out, and plan for just transitions in their domains.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
John Morrissey is a Lecturer in Geography at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. John’s research is focused on sustainable development, particularly sustainability transitions, low-carbon development and challenges of the low carbon economy for urban and coastal communities. His work is focused on the differentiation of transition processes across space, place and communities. He has taught and researched on sustainability issues in Ireland, The UK, Australia and New Zealand.
C. Patrick Heidkamp is a Professor of Geography in the Department of the Environment, Geography and Marine Sciences at Southern Connecticut State University, USA and an affiliate faculty member at the University Centre of the Westfjords, Iceland. During much of the writing for this volume he was a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) supported Guest Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Cologne. He is an economic geographer with current research interests in sustainability transitions in the coastal zone and transdisciplinary engagement with the Blue Economy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Demanding Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Pillars to (Re-)Build a Shared Prosperity
Authors: John Morrissey, C. Patrick Heidkamp
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18958-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18957-9Published: 10 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18958-6Published: 09 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 124
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Human Geography, Geography, general, Public Policy