Planetary Passport : Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation

• Main Author: McIntyre-Mills, Janet J. 1959-
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
• Series: Contemporary systems thinking.
• Subjects: Economic development.; Cost and standard of living.; Business ethics.; Public administration.; Social change.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319580111; 9783319580104
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 pages)

This book explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. The book examines the complex ethical challenges of closing the wide gap in living standards between rich and...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Glossary; Summary; Prologue: Hunger and Thirst: Learning From History, Experience and Place; Focusing Thoughts; Rationale for Planetary Passport: Knowing Our Place Through Recognising Our Hybridity and Interconnectedness; Mindfulness and Transformation; Remembering and Reconnecting with Country; Research as Both Resistance and Re-generation; 1 Beyond Anthropocentricism-Why 'Taming' or 'Tackling' Wicked Problems' is Problematic; 1.1 Introduction: How Can We Achieve the Values, Will and Conditions to Govern the Anthropocene?
• 1.2 Accountability for the Loss of Human Security Ought to be the Next Step for Social Justice: The Environment is Eroded to Prop Up the Failing Economy; 1.3 Phronesis, Ethics and Designing a Response; 1.3.1 Putting It All Together Using Critical Systemic Heuristics; 1.4 Design for Meaningful Research; 1.4.1 Community of Practice Approach; 1.4.1.1 Praxis: Believing in Students and Empowering Them to Become Leaders Through Enabling Them to Apply Critical Systemic Thinking and Practice to Diverse, Complex Trans-Disciplinary Issues; 1.5 Policy Opportunity.
• 1.6 The Horizon: Trans-Disciplinarity and Cross-Cultural Studies Matter; 1.6.1 Learning Communities Contribute to Developing Insight and Foresight to Narrow the Gap Between Service Users and Providers; 1.6.2 Participatory Decision-Making on Well-being and Climate Change to Enhance Representation, Accountability and Sustainability; 1.7 Conclusion; 2 People and the Planet: Implications of Hybridity for Ethics and Consumption Choices; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Decentring Anthropocentric and Ethnocentric Mindsets and Learning from Country; 2.1.2 Consciousness of Who We Are and What We Stand for.
• 2.2 From Working Within Boundaries to Recognition of Flows; 2.2.1 Cultural Transformation: How Democratic Is Democracy if It Does not Foster Human Security?; 2.2.2 From Ark of Covenant to Global Covenant for Space Ship Earth; 2.3 Protecting Spaces for Diversity and Biodiversity; 2.3.1 Ethical Choices: Competition, Cooperation and Interdependence Based on Recognising Our Hybridity; 2.3.2 Urban Living Shapes Our View of the World; 2.4 An Architecture for Re-generation to Maximise Changes Towards a More Sustainable Future.
• 2.4.1 Reconnecting with the Environment Through Spirituality, Oral History and Law; 2.4.2 Reflection on 'The Case Against the West and the Self-fulfilling Prophecy of the 'Clash of Cultures'; 2.5 Values and Relationships: Expanding Solidarity; 2.5.1 How Can We Achieve Cultural Transformation on Consumption Patterns Through Balancing Individual and Collective Needs?; 2.5.2 Power of Ethical Narratives; 2.5.3 How Can Participatory Governance Support the Self-management of Our Ecological Footprints?; 2.6 Policy Paradoxes; 2.7 Debunking the 'Clash of Civilisation' Approach.