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The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene (Environment and Society) by Melinda Harm Benson, Robin Kundis Craig is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene (Environment and Society) about?

The time has come for us to collectively reexamineand ultimately move pastthe concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating a world characterized by extreme complexity, radical uncertainty, and unprecedented change. From a legal and policy perspective, we must face the impossibility of even defininglet alone pursuinga goal of sustainability in such a world. Melinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig propose resilience as a more realistic and workable communitarian approach to environmental governance. American environmental and natural resources laws date to the early 1970s, when the steady-state Balance of Nature model was in voguea model that ecologists have long since rejected, even before adding the complication of climate change. In the Anthropocene, a new era in which humans are the key agent of change on the planet, these laws (and American culture more generally) need to embrace new narratives of complex ecosystems and humans' role as part of themnarratives exemplified by cultural tricksters and resilienc

Author

Melinda Harm Benson, Robin Kundis Craig

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700625178

Subjects

Political Science, Law, Nature