Transformation from Wall Street to Wellbeing Joining Up the Dots Through Participatory Democracy and Governance to Mitigate the Causes and Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change /

• Main Author: McIntyre-Mills, Janet (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Contemporary Systems Thinking,
• Subjects: Medical research.; Economic policy.; Economic sociology.; Quality of life.; Economics.; Economic Policy.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Quality of Life Research.

This book has two main objectives. The first is to make the case for social change through exploring post disciplinary and post materialist frameworks to address greed, zero sum competition for resources, the commodification of the powerless and the environment. Secondly, it develops a reframed appr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• Vulnerability and risk: Towards stewardship of a post carbon economy
• Facing up to fin de siecle culture
• New Regionalist monitory democracy and governance: A reply to the so-called problem of cosmopolitan politics
• Greed and Complicity: Responsibility to others and future generations
• Conclusion: towards a nonanthropocentric stewardship approach
• Post Script: responding to existential risks
• Executive Summary
• User Guide: For Engagement to address climate change through participatory democracy and governance.