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Taylor and Francis Ltd Sustainable Places 1st Edition 2022 Softbound by Adamson, David
This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors suggest that 'place' is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and proposed pathways to get there). A series of 'Deep Place' case studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and green 'new deal' and identifies what this should be like. It suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable, requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of 'regenerative collectivism' to overcome these crises.This book will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social and climate justice advocates/activists. Part One1. Global crisis: our moment of reckoning2. Green Deals and a new economic settlement3. Place and social structure4. Environment and place: understanding the socio-natural relations of the Anthropocene5. The cultural place6. Deep Place: from concepts to praxisPart Two7. Understanding places: introducing Deep Place8. Case studies: UK9. Case studies: Australia and Vanuatu10. Finding a regenerative social, economic, and political orderIndex