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This chapter draws conclusions from the discussion of economics and sustainability in the preceding chapters and makes suggestions for renewing the sustainability process. The institutional weaknesses of sustainability governance require that we develop broader strategies for a global social-ecological transformation to sustainability. Instead of reducing sustainable development to simpler and less ambitious changes that are guided by the concepts of resilience and environmental justice (or in piecemeal engineering of “wicked problems”) sustainability governance should be improved by combining interdisciplinary knowledge practices with participative governance practices, the building of transformative action groups, and the formation of institutions for resource sharing and earth systems governance.
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Bruckmeier, K. (2020). Recreating Sustainability: Conjectures and Conclusions. In: Economics and Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56627-2_10
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