Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Forward

Preface

1. Introduction
James Meadowcroft, David Banister, Erling Holden, Oluf Langhelle, Kristin Linnerud and Geoffrey Gilpin

Part I Setting the Context
2. Our Common Future in Earth Systems perspective
Simon Dalby

3. A normative model of sustainable development: how do countries comply?
Kristin Linnerud, Erling Holden, Geoffrey Gilpin and Morten Simonsen

Part II Negotiating environmental limits
4. The global sustainability challenges in the future: the energy use, materials supply, pollution, climate change and inequality nexus
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

5. Implications of deep decarbonisation pathways for sustainable development
Sabine Fuss

6. Brundtland+30: the continuing need for an indicator of environmental sustainability
Paul Ekins and Arkaitz Usubiaga

Part III Equity, needs and development
7. Sustainability and redistribution
Iris Borowy

8. Necessities and luxuries: how to combine redistribution with sustainable consumption
Ian Gough

9. Taming equity in multilateral climate politics: A shift from responsibilities to capacities
Sonja Klinsky and Aarti Gupta

Part IV Transitions and transformation
10. The Transition to Sustainability as Interbeing . . . or: from oncology to ontology
Felix Rauschmayer

11. Taking climate change and transformations to sustainability seriously
Karen O'Brien

12. Sustainability and the politics of transformations: from control to care in moving beyond Modernity
Andy Stirling

13. Politics and technology: deploying the state to accelerate socio-technical transitions for sustainability
Oluf Langhelle, James Meadowcroft, and Daniel Rosenbloom

Part V Facing the future
14. Beyond limits: making policy in a climate changed world
Eva Loevbrand

15. A Future for Sustainable Development?
David Banister
16. What Next for Sustainable Development?
David Banister, Erling Holden, Oluf Langhelle, Kristin Linnerud, James Meadowcroft and Geoffrey Gilpin
Index