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Chapter 1 Towards Sustainable Development
Facilitating Systemic Research and Learning and the Transition to Agricultural Sustainability
Karin Eksvärd
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
As feeding the world’s increasing population in a period of significant climate change becomes ever more important new approaches to learning and agriculture are obviously required. This interesting article on sustainable farming practices and triple loop learning is based on valuable participatory learning and case study research undertaken with organic tomato growers in Sweden.
Chapter 2 Worldviews and Ethical Values: Towards an Ecological Paradigm
Information and Communication for Rural Innovation and Development: Context, Quality and Priorities in Southeast Uganda
Haroon Sseguya, Robert Mazur, Eric Abbott & Frank Matsiko
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
This article based on a qualitative research methodology examines how information generation in rural areas can be used effectively in agricultural innovation systems. The nature of social and power relations together with the degree of trust within are among the important elements discussed.
Chapter 3 Cultural and Contested Understandings of Science and Sustainability
Whose Sustainability? Environmental Domination and Sen's Capability Approach
Fabian Scholtes
Oxford Development Studies
Fabian Sholtes offers a detailed and sophisticated discussion of the way nature is, or can be valued, in the context of sustainability and sustainable development. His approach to the extremely important notion of ‘capability’ developed by the development economist Amartya Sen is both constructive and critical.
Chapter 4 Connecting Social with Environmental Justice
Facilitating North–South Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture
C.J.A.M. Termeer, T. Hilhorst & J. Oorthuizen
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Partnership working is an important and well established approach to fashioning sustainability practices and this article offers some important practical insights into the ways in which North–South partnerships can be built and made to work effectively and efficiently in a development context.
Chapter 5 Sustainable Development, Politics and Governance
Putting Sustainability into Sustainable Human Development
Wouter Peeters, Jo Dirix & Sigrid Sterck
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
Sustainability and equity are inextricably linked and the impact of climate change has served to make this link all the more vivid and explicable. Human development depends ultimately on the environment and the capabilities approach is crucially important not least in how its application can restrain and constrain human beings’ unsustainable behaviour and practices.
Chapter 6 Conservation and Sustainable Development
Low-Carbon Standards and Labels in China
Clara Brandi
Oxford Development Studies
The development and use of international standards in sustainability is well recognized as an important means of encouraging pro-sustainable practices and in the twenty first century, in which China will play a pivotal role in the global economy and in global sustainable developments, such standards are likely to become increasingly important.
Chapter 7 Beyond the Imperatives of Economic Growth and ‘Business as Usual’
Learning about Complex Multi-Stakeholder Issues: Assessing the Visual Problem Appraisal
Loes Witteveen, Marcel Put & Cees Leeuwis
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
The use of still and moving images in sustainability learning is becoming increasingly common as its value in stretching learners’ imaginations, perceptions and abilities becomes recognised. This research article based on work in India shows how learners from different backgrounds addressed ‘wicked problems’ through visual problem appraisal (VPA).
Chapter 8 Envisioning Sustainable Societies and Urban Areas
Using the Arts to Raise Awareness and Communicate Environmental Information in the Extension Context
David J. Curtis
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
This article based on research in Australia shows how the visual and performing arts can help aid and enhance environmental management, communication and learning. There is considerable unrealised potential in using arts based learning and more people need to recognise their value.
Chapter 9 Tools, Systems and Innovation for Sustainability
Fixing Women or Fixing the World? ‘Smart Economics’, Efficiency Approaches, and Gender Equality in Development
Valerie Nelson & Tanya Stathers
Gender & Development
Climate change, agricultural adaptation and the empowerment of women will undoubtedly be important issues in the coming decades. This article explores all this, making important points regarding women’s participation in decision-making, divisions of labour, access to resources and knowledge systems with specific reference to research undertaken in Tanzania. Interestingly, the authors draw insights from ‘resilience thinking’, ‘political ecology’ and environmental anthropology, which become useful tools in analysing power struggles and cultural norms present within the wider socio-ecological system.
Chapter 10 Communication and Learning for Sustainability
Women's Rights in Climate Change: Using Video as a Tool for Empowerment in Nepal
Marion Khamis, Tamara Plush & Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya
Gender & Development
Projects like the use of video discussions on climate discussed in this article are, as the authors state ‘a result of ActionAid’s sustained efforts to make women’s rights operational, showing that participatory methods are key to translating rights based approaches into programme work. Many ActionAid staff, as practitioners elsewhere, are sometimes unsure on how to “do” women’s-rights work, leading to confusion, frustration and often resistance’. This article offers some pointers as to how these problems can be successfully addressed.
Chapter 11 Leading the Sustainability Process
The Ends and Means of Sustainability
Amartya Sen
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
In this important article Amartya Sen argues that a fuller concept of sustainability must aim at sustaining human freedoms, rather than just our ability to fulfil our felt needs. An important question that still needs to be answered by Sen relates to the freedoms of non-human animals.