Transformative Sustainable Development: Participation, reflection and change (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development) - Hardcover

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Otsuki, Kei

 
9780415640794: Transformative Sustainable Development: Participation, reflection and change (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415640792 ISBN 13: 9780415640794
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations. In this context, participation is a genuinely transformative approach to sustainable development, yet the process by which participation leads to transformation is not sufficiently understood.

This book considers how the act of participating in sustainable development projects can bring about social transformation that is considered to be fair and just by the participants and non-participants in a broader societal context. Drawing on ideas from social theory and applied anthropology, the book proposes a reflexivity-based framework to analyse participation as a type of social action underpinned by primary experience. Development projects have a transformative effect when participants are given the opportunity to reflect on their experience, share the reflection with others, and open new space for collective deliberation and change. The book applies this framework to assess community-based participatory projects in the Amazon, African slums and rural settlements, and disaster stricken areas in Japan. It also outlines potential institutions of governance to institutionalize the change by referring to current food governance, drawing out lessons with international relevance.

This book will be of interest to students of sustainable development, environmental policy and development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.

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About the Author

Kei Otsuki is a sociologist and an assistant professor at Utrecht University, in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, the Netherlands.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415640792
ISBN 13 
9780415640794
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144

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