Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability

Contents:

List of contributors viii
Introduction: the scale of sustainability-the limiting universe where everything
and nothing is sustainable 1
Larry M. Frolich, Esmeralda Guevara and Fausto O. Sarmiento

PART I FOUNDATIONAL BINARIES OF GEOGRAPHY AND
SUSTAINABILITY
1 Packing transdisciplinary critical geography amidst sustainability of
mountainscapes 15
Fausto O. Sarmiento
2 A binary South to North world: the geography of sustainability for a
high-energy, urbanizing, digitalized human species 31
Esmeralda Guevara and Larry M. Frolich
3 Sustainable development and the concept of scale 49
Bernard Debarbieux and J.rg Balsiger
4 Multidisciplinary approaches for conservation issues 67
Rachid Cheddadi, Fausto O. Sarmiento, Alain Hambuckers, Ali Rhoujjati,
Pierre Taberlet, Francesco Ficetola, Alexandra-Jane Henrot, Louis Fran.ois,
Fr.d.ric Boyer and Majda Nourelbait
5 The dance of sustainability: a call to engage geographers in local- and
global-scale research 79
Carol P. Harden
6 Sustainability and globalization 93
Helena Norberg-Hodge
7 The climate framework in sustainability research: a geographic critique from
the Global South 110
Kenneth R. Young

PART II INTEGRATION OF DISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT FOR
SUSTAINABILITY
8 Why sustainability matters in geography 117
Friedrich M. Zimmermann and Susanne Zimmermann-Janschitz
9 Urban montology: mountain cities as transdisciplinary research focus 140
Axel Borsdorf and Andreas Haller
10 The Satoyama Initiative for landscape/seascape sustainability 155
William Dunbar and Kaoru Ichikawa
11 A biocultural ethic for sustainable geographies 172
Ricardo Rozzi
12 Values in place: protected areas as a geography of commitment 190
David Harmon

PART III RESOURCE EXPLOITATION AND CYCLING OF
ACCOMMODATION
13 Regenerative development as natural solution for sustainability 201
Eduard Mu?ller
14 Sustainable relationships and ecological authenticity 219
Nigel Dudley
15 Feeding futures framed: rediscovering biocultural diversity in sustainable
foodscapes 235
Genevieve A. Holdridge, Fausto O. Sarmiento, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch,
Bynum Boley, James K. Reap, Eric A. Macdonald, Mar.a Navarro,
Sarah L. Hitchner and John W. Schelhas
16 Sustainable urbanism or amenity migration fad: critical analysis of urban
planning of Cuenca cityscapes, Ecuador 252
Mario E. Donoso-Correa and Fausto O. Sarmiento

PART IV COUNTRY EXAMPLES: NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS/TEK
17 Land cover and land use change in an emerging national park gateway region:
implications for mountain sustainability 270
Lynn M. Resler, Yang Shao, James B. Campbell and Amanda Michaels
18 Listening to the campesinos : sustaining rural livelihoods in the tropical Andes 293
Christoph Stadel
19 Decolonizing ecological knowledge: transdisciplinary ecology, place making
and cognitive justice in the Andes 307
S.bastien Boillat
20 Cultural sustainability and notions of cultural heritage: a review with some
reference to an Asian perspective 320
Ken Taylor
21 Threats to sustainability in the Galapagos Islands: a social-ecological
perspective 342
Carlos F. Mena, Diego Quiroga and Stephen J. Walsh
22 Celestial bird's eye view: tracking forest cover change in the Bellbird
Biological Corridor of Costa Rica 359
Steve Padgett-Vasquez
23 Andean indigenous foodscapes: food security and food sovereignty in
mountains' sustainability scenarios 378
Juan A. Gonz.lez and Fausto O. Sarmiento

PART V POSTCRIPT
24 Montology: an integrative understanding of mountain foodscapes for
strengthening food sovereignty in the Andes 391
Jos. Tom.s Ibarra, Antonia Barreau, Carla Marchant, Juan A. Gonz.lez,
Manuel Oliva, Mario E. Donoso-Correa, Berea Antaki,
Constanza Monterrubio-Sol.s and Fausto O. Sarmiento
25 Sustainability: Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 - "Think local planet,
act regionally" 406
Thomas J. Christoffel

PART VI EPILOGUE
26 Sustainability thinking: the road ahead 415
Fausto O. Sarmiento and Larry M. Frolich

Index 419

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• Geografia
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• Sustentabilidade
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Sustainability book; Critical geography; Transdisciplinary; Urbanization and development; Environmental conservation; Socio-ecoecological systems