Navigating Transitions to Sustainable Human Development: Frameworks, Evidence and Policies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1035390663 ISBN 13: 9781035390663

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

This book introduces an innovative framework for Sustainable Human Development, highlighting how achieving a balance between human well-being and planetary boundaries requires moving beyond growth-focused horizons. Leading experts present integrated approaches, mapping a clear path for future transitions.

Chapters explore current and future sustainable and inclusive well-being, using the Sustainable Human Development paradigm and integral ecology perspective to identify the pillars, driving actors and triggering factors for sustainable transitions. Critiquing the traditional overreliance on GDP as a policy metric, they propose holistic measurement frameworks that capture a comprehensive view of well-being. By exploring frameworks, evidence and policies across Europe and the Global South, the book expands sustainability beyond Eurocentrism and helps foster a consensus across theoretical, technical, policy and public domains to promote sustainable and inclusive well-being at all levels.

Navigating Transitions to Sustainable Human Development is a key resource for students and scholars of development studies, sociology, environmental governance and political economy. Policymakers and NGO practitioners will benefit from its actionable recommendations for more integral development.

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About the Author

Edited by Mario Biggeri, Full Professor of Applied Economics and Andrea Ferrannini, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Italy

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035390663
• ISBN 13: 9781035390663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Biggeri Mario, Ferrannini Andrea