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Metaphors for Change: Partnerships Tools and Civic Action for Sustainability

Metaphors for Change: Partnerships Tools and Civic Action for Sustainability

by Penny Allen (Editor)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

How can we get from where we are to where we want to be? Metaphors for Change attempts to answer this question and provide a roadmap for sustainability by bringing together the thoughts of a unique collection of leading change agents from business, government and academia.

Environmental questions have previously been dealt with metaphorically, by catastrophism or manicheism (zero growth; Malthusianism, Deep Ecology; man is the enemy ; less is more). These metaphors have had limited impact because they have failed to connect with the mainstream of cultural, political, and business ideas. This book examines a number of new metaphors - and related partnerships, tools and action - which appear to have greater possibilities for the world in which we now live.

The editors argue that Metaphors for Change can deliver to the public and to decision-makers new perceptions ( structured knowledge ) that can help interpret the past and the present, and help us forge the future. The wider the gap between the now and the necessary , the stronger the bridging perceptions have to be in order to break through barriers of fear and conservatism. Some of the concepts considered are: sustainable development; the polluter pays principle; the precautionary principle; eco-efficiency; eco-effectiveness; life-cycle assessment; design for the environment; eco-services; dematerialization; industrial symbiosis; industrial ecology; and zero emissions. There are of course other useful metaphors on the horizon, some of them included in this book.

Including key contributions from the ground-breaking conferences ECO 97 and ECO 99, along with other specially commissioned and reprinted pieces, Metaphors for Change provides a treasure chest of new ideas, innovations and action. Accessible and forward-thinking, it will prove indispensable both as a student learning tool and as a panoramic overview of the sustainability metaphors key thinkers believe we should be putting into practice.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 326
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns
Published: 30 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 1874719373
ISBN 13: 9781874719373
Book Overview: Provides a roadmap for sustainability by bringing together the thoughts of a unique collection of leading change agents from business, government and academia. Examines a number of new metaphors - and related partnerships, tools and action - that appear to have greater possibilities for the world in which we now live.

Media Reviews

This book is designed to provide a treasure chest of new ideas, innovations and action , which it does admirably ... what you are getting here is an impressive range of small tastes of a variety of different concepts. Very stimulating particularly if it encourages students and researchers to continue on to read these authors' other writings. - Social and Environmental Accounting

... opens up new perceptions and presents a comprehensive overview on environmental management concepts as well as implementation tools and partnerships. - ICLEI European Circular

Author Bio
American Penny Allen is a writer and environmental consultant living in Paris. She has worked on environmental issues in the United States and Europe since 1987, and organised the international conferences ECO 1997, ECO 1999 and ECO 2001. Earlier, Allen worked as a public welfare worker, a university instructor, a community organiser in local land-use planning, a feature film-maker, and, in 2001, she published a non-fiction book, A Geography of Saints (Boston, MA: Zoland Books). Christophe Bonazzi is a Frenchman with a doctorate in industrial economics from the Paris Ecole des Mines. He was Secretary General of the Ecobilan Group from 1992 to 1996 and since then has headed a small, innovative electronics firm. He co-organised the ECO conferences and is active in local politics in the French Green Party. Englishman David Gee has worked for over two decades on occupational and environmental risk reduction with UK Trade Unions, with the Environmental Group and Friends of the Earth, where he was Director. Since 1995, he has worked for the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, where he is responsible for emerging issues and scientific liaison. He is now working on the European Environment Agency report, The Precautionary Principle: Late Lessons from Early Warnings, 1896-2000.