The Age of Sustainability

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.

Mark Swilling is Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where he is the Co-Director of the Stellenbosch Centre for Complex Systems in Transition.

PART I Points of Departure 1. Introduction - Change in the Age of Sustainability 2. Ukama: emerging metatheories for the twenty-first century PART II Rethinking Global Transitions 3. Understanding our finite world 4. Global crisis and transition: a long wave perspective 5. Futuring, experimentation and radical incrementalism 6. Evolutionary Potential of the Present: Why Ecocultures Matter PART III Making and Resisting Sustainability Transitions 7. Developmental states and sustainability transitions 8. Global energy transition, energy democracy and the commons 9. Resisting Transition: ElectroMasculinity and the rise of Authoritarianism PART IV Transdisciplinary Knowing 10. Towards an evolutionary pedagogy of the present 11. Concluding reflections of an enraged incrementalist