Acknowledgments
Foreword \ David W. Orr
PART I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Failing Governance, Unsustainable Planet \ Michael Renner and Tom Prugh
Chapter 2. Understanding Governance \ D. Conor Seyle and Matthew Wilburn King
PART II. Political Governance
Chapter 3. Governance, Sustainability, and Evolution \ John Gowdy
Chapter 4. Ecoliteracy: Knowledge Is Not Enough \ Monty Hempel
Chapter 5. Digitization and Sustainability \ Richard Worthington
Chapter 6. Living in the Anthropocene: Business as Usual, or Compassionate Retreat? \ Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt
Chapter 7. Governing People as Members of the Earth Community \ Cormac Cullinan
Chapter 8. Listening to the Voices of Young and Future Generations \ Antoine Ebel and Tatiana Rinke
Chapter 9. Advancing Ecological Stewardship Via the Commons and Human Rights \ David Bollier and Burns Weston
Chapter 10. Looking Backward (Not Forward) to Environmental Justice \ Aaron Sachs
Chapter 11. The Too Polite Revolution: Understanding the Failure to Pass U.S. Climate Legislation \ Petra Bartosiewicz and Marissa Miley
Chapter 12. China's Environmental Governance Challenge \ Sam Geall and Isabel Hilton
Chapter 13. Assessing the Outcomes of Rio+20 \ Maria Ivanova
Chapter 14. How Local Governments Have Become a Factor in Global Sustainability \ Monika Zimmerman
PART III. Economic Governance
Chapter 15. Scrutinizing the Corporate Role in the Post-2015 Development Agenda \ Lou Pingeot
Chapter 16. Making Finance Serve the Real Economy \ Thomas Palley
Chapter 17. Climate Governance and the Resource Curse \ Evan Musolino and Katie Auth
Chapter 18. The Political-Economic Foundations of a Sustainable System \ Gar Alperovitz
Chapter 19. The Rise of Triple-Bottom-Line Businesses \ Colleen Cordes
Chapter 20. Working Toward Energy Democracy \ Sean Sweeney
Chapter 21. Take the Wheel and Steer! Trade Unions and the Just Transition \ Nina Netzer and Judith Gouverneur
PART IV. Conclusion
Chapter 22. A Call to Engagement \ Tom Prugh and Michael Renner
Notes
Index
Boxes
5-1 Networked Governance to the Rescue? \ Matthew Wilburn King
7-1 Extracts from the Constitution of Ecuador \ Cormac Cullinan
8-1 Representing Future Interests Within the United Nations \ Mirna Ines Fernández
8-2 Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Financial Arm of Intergenerational Governance? \ Elizabeth Buchan
9-1 Litigating for the Public Trust \ Alec Loorz
13-1 A Policy Mechanism for Ensuring Sustainable Development: National Resource Sufficiency Evaluation \ Ed Barry
14-1 Local Agenda 21: A Powerful Movement with Wide-ranging Impacts \ Monika Zimmerman
14-2 Local Government Involvement in the UN Biodiversity Convention \ Monika Zimmerman
14-3 Cities in the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda
17-1 The Norwegian Oil Fund \ Evan Musolino and Katie Auth
18-1 Ten Years On: Argentina's ""Recuperated"" Worker-Owned Factories \ Leccese
19-1 Public Benefit Corporations in Delaware \ Colleen Cordes
21-1 The Just Transition Framework \ Nina Netzer and Judith Gouverneur
22-1 Women, Governance, and Sustainability \ Robert Engelman and Janice Pratt
22-2 Building a Culture of Engagement \ Tom Prugh
Tables
1-1 Carbon Emissions by Type of Entity, 1751-2010
1-2 Worldwide Protests by Selected Grievance or Demand, 2006-2013
4-1 Factors Contributing to Eco-Complacency and Disbelief
4-2 The Governance Tool Kit
5-1 Growth in U.S. Energy Usage, 1950-2010
5-2 U.S. Total Investment versus ICT Investment, 1992-2012
13-1 UN Millennium Development Goals: Goals and Targets
16-1 Growth of the U.S. Financial Sector, Selected Years, 1973-2007
16-2 Growth of U.S. Household Debt, Selected Years, 1973-2007
19-1 U.S. Movement for Benefit Corporation Laws
19-2 Global Reach of Certified B Corporations
20-1 Global Capacity or Production of Selected Renewable Energy Technologies, 2000 and 2012
20-2 Revenues and Profits of the World's 50 Largest Corporations, by Industry, 2012
21-1 Green Economy Approaches: An Overview
21-2 Selected Proponents of the Green Economy
Figures
2-1 Google Scholar Hits for ""Governance"" and ""Government,"" 19502010
14-1 Local Climate Actions Paralleling Global Actions, 19902013
15-1 United Nations Funding Sources, 2012
16-1 The Virtuous Circle Keynsian Growth Model, 1945-75
16-2 Productivity and Real Average Hourly Wage and Compensation of U.S. Non-supervisory Workers, 1948-2011
16-3 The Neoliberal (""Market Fundamentalist"") Policy Box
16-4 Main Conduits of Financialization
16-5 Putting Finance Back in the Box
17-1 Freedom of the Press in Countries Most Dependent on Oil and Gas Earnings, 2011
22-1 Women in Parliaments, 1997-2013
Foreword \ David W. Orr
PART I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Failing Governance, Unsustainable Planet \ Michael Renner and Tom Prugh
Chapter 2. Understanding Governance \ D. Conor Seyle and Matthew Wilburn King
PART II. Political Governance
Chapter 3. Governance, Sustainability, and Evolution \ John Gowdy
Chapter 4. Ecoliteracy: Knowledge Is Not Enough \ Monty Hempel
Chapter 5. Digitization and Sustainability \ Richard Worthington
Chapter 6. Living in the Anthropocene: Business as Usual, or Compassionate Retreat? \ Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt
Chapter 7. Governing People as Members of the Earth Community \ Cormac Cullinan
Chapter 8. Listening to the Voices of Young and Future Generations \ Antoine Ebel and Tatiana Rinke
Chapter 9. Advancing Ecological Stewardship Via the Commons and Human Rights \ David Bollier and Burns Weston
Chapter 10. Looking Backward (Not Forward) to Environmental Justice \ Aaron Sachs
Chapter 11. The Too Polite Revolution: Understanding the Failure to Pass U.S. Climate Legislation \ Petra Bartosiewicz and Marissa Miley
Chapter 12. China's Environmental Governance Challenge \ Sam Geall and Isabel Hilton
Chapter 13. Assessing the Outcomes of Rio+20 \ Maria Ivanova
Chapter 14. How Local Governments Have Become a Factor in Global Sustainability \ Monika Zimmerman
PART III. Economic Governance
Chapter 15. Scrutinizing the Corporate Role in the Post-2015 Development Agenda \ Lou Pingeot
Chapter 16. Making Finance Serve the Real Economy \ Thomas Palley
Chapter 17. Climate Governance and the Resource Curse \ Evan Musolino and Katie Auth
Chapter 18. The Political-Economic Foundations of a Sustainable System \ Gar Alperovitz
Chapter 19. The Rise of Triple-Bottom-Line Businesses \ Colleen Cordes
Chapter 20. Working Toward Energy Democracy \ Sean Sweeney
Chapter 21. Take the Wheel and Steer! Trade Unions and the Just Transition \ Nina Netzer and Judith Gouverneur
PART IV. Conclusion
Chapter 22. A Call to Engagement \ Tom Prugh and Michael Renner
Notes
Index
Boxes
5-1 Networked Governance to the Rescue? \ Matthew Wilburn King
7-1 Extracts from the Constitution of Ecuador \ Cormac Cullinan
8-1 Representing Future Interests Within the United Nations \ Mirna Ines Fernández
8-2 Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Financial Arm of Intergenerational Governance? \ Elizabeth Buchan
9-1 Litigating for the Public Trust \ Alec Loorz
13-1 A Policy Mechanism for Ensuring Sustainable Development: National Resource Sufficiency Evaluation \ Ed Barry
14-1 Local Agenda 21: A Powerful Movement with Wide-ranging Impacts \ Monika Zimmerman
14-2 Local Government Involvement in the UN Biodiversity Convention \ Monika Zimmerman
14-3 Cities in the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda
17-1 The Norwegian Oil Fund \ Evan Musolino and Katie Auth
18-1 Ten Years On: Argentina's ""Recuperated"" Worker-Owned Factories \ Leccese
19-1 Public Benefit Corporations in Delaware \ Colleen Cordes
21-1 The Just Transition Framework \ Nina Netzer and Judith Gouverneur
22-1 Women, Governance, and Sustainability \ Robert Engelman and Janice Pratt
22-2 Building a Culture of Engagement \ Tom Prugh
Tables
1-1 Carbon Emissions by Type of Entity, 1751-2010
1-2 Worldwide Protests by Selected Grievance or Demand, 2006-2013
4-1 Factors Contributing to Eco-Complacency and Disbelief
4-2 The Governance Tool Kit
5-1 Growth in U.S. Energy Usage, 1950-2010
5-2 U.S. Total Investment versus ICT Investment, 1992-2012
13-1 UN Millennium Development Goals: Goals and Targets
16-1 Growth of the U.S. Financial Sector, Selected Years, 1973-2007
16-2 Growth of U.S. Household Debt, Selected Years, 1973-2007
19-1 U.S. Movement for Benefit Corporation Laws
19-2 Global Reach of Certified B Corporations
20-1 Global Capacity or Production of Selected Renewable Energy Technologies, 2000 and 2012
20-2 Revenues and Profits of the World's 50 Largest Corporations, by Industry, 2012
21-1 Green Economy Approaches: An Overview
21-2 Selected Proponents of the Green Economy
Figures
2-1 Google Scholar Hits for ""Governance"" and ""Government,"" 19502010
14-1 Local Climate Actions Paralleling Global Actions, 19902013
15-1 United Nations Funding Sources, 2012
16-1 The Virtuous Circle Keynsian Growth Model, 1945-75
16-2 Productivity and Real Average Hourly Wage and Compensation of U.S. Non-supervisory Workers, 1948-2011
16-3 The Neoliberal (""Market Fundamentalist"") Policy Box
16-4 Main Conduits of Financialization
16-5 Putting Finance Back in the Box
17-1 Freedom of the Press in Countries Most Dependent on Oil and Gas Earnings, 2011
22-1 Women in Parliaments, 1997-2013