For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Towards Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, ‘new agenda’ or critical. • The first book to tell the post-1945 story of International Security Studies and offer an integrated historical sociology of the whole field • Opens the door to a long-overdue conversation about what ISS is and where it should be going • Provides a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources

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The Evolution of International Security Studies

Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences

This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability. Social learning is explored from a range of fields challenged by sustainability including: organizational learning, environmental management and corporate social responsibility; multi-stakeholder governance; education, learning and educational psychology; multiple land-use and integrated rural development; and consumerism and critical consumer education. An entire section of the book is devoted to a number of reflective case studies of people, organizations and communities using forms of social learning in moving towards sustainability.

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Social learning towards a sustainable world

The importance of the construction industry for the three elements of sustainable development, namely economic growth, social progress and effective protection of the environment, cannot be disregarded. This paper aims to evolve a conceptual framework for implementing sustainability principles and strategies to the construction industry from a life-cycle perspective to contribute to sustainable development. The framework relies on three basic principles, which are resource management, life-cycle design and design for human and environment. Following a literature review, each principle involving strategies and methods to be applied during the life cycle of construction projects is explained and a few case studies are presented for clarity on the methods. The framework, offering tools for stakeholders of the construction industry, also aims to help to develop the most appropriate assessment tool, which is based on the priorities of critical conditions. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

How can the construction industry contribute to sustainable development? A conceptual framework

Global strategies for sustainable development remain caught in an interplay between environmental moralism and policy incrementalism. The former is evidenced in the continuing proliferation of international sustainability declarations; the latter in the design of local programmes approaching sustainable development in scattered, piecemeal policies where the goal – sustainability – remains unclear or only loosely defined. This paper points to the problems and perils of the dual process, underscoring the risks of environmental moralism implicit in such practices and highlighting the costs of formulating sustainability programmes only vaguely attached to its core concept. It initially focuses on the effort to promote Local Agenda 21 (LA21) – one model of sustainable urban practice – among towns and communities throughout the world and then contrasts Local Agenda 21 with the Aalborg Charter, a competing model for urban sustainability. In order to explore the success to date in implementing Local Agenda 21, the paper offers an overview of four exemplary programmes of community sustainability. The final section presents a critical assessment of LA21's successes and failures judged against an alternative sustainability framework developed by the Center for Sustainable Cities and informing the Aalborg Charter. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

Beyond environmental moralism and policy incrementalism in the global sustainability debate: case studies and an alternative framework

Nearly half a decade ago, a new revolution in American political science was heralded by David Easton Speaking before the members of the American Political Science Association, the departing president startled his audience by his ringing call for the acceptance and institutionalization of this revolution the &dquo;post-behavioral revolution&dquo; in the discipline, just as he had urged the assimilation of behavioralism into political science some sixteen

Toward a post-modern theory of american political science and culture: Perspectives from critical marxism and phenomenology

This paper seeks to explore Canada's response to the global dialogue over sustainable development on two dimensions: policy articulation at the federal and provincial levels and policy implementation at the municipal level. In order to accomplish these goals, this analysis begins by outlining a critical framework for understanding and assessing local sustainable development. Next, it examines the evolution of Canadian federal and provincial policies supportive of sustainable development, including the role played by non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) in enhancing this process. It then contrasts the Canadian promise and experience with that of the USA. In analysing local responses to the call for sustainable communities, it offers a case study of the Hamilton‐Wentworth Vision 2020 sustainable community programme—a North American showcase of sustainable community initiatives.

Ernest J. Yanarella

Papers

Beyond environmental moralism and policy incrementalism in the global sustainability debate: case studies and an alternative framework

Toward a post-modern theory of american political science and culture: Perspectives from critical marxism and phenomenology

Local sustainability programmes in comparative perspective: Canada and the USA

Toward a Critical Theory of Peace Research in the United States: the Search for an 'Intelligible Core'

Critical political theory and moral development