The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the models used to derive those estimates are based on assumptions that have largely gone untested. The conventional approach embodies structural features that rule...

Part I. The dynamics of transitions : a socio-technical perspective / Frank W. Geels and Johan Schot -- Part II. Towards a better understanding of transitions and their governance : a systemic and reflexive approach / Jan Rotmans and Derk Loorbach -- Part III. Understanding transitions from a...

Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development -- 3. Sustainability and development -- 4. Technological revolutions and development -- 5. Conflict and development -- 6. Disruptions in local and regional development and the way forward for a more humanitarian world -- References -- Index.

"This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical...