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Focusing on climate change, this article discusses possibilities of a local approach to complex globalenvironmental problems. Due to failures of markets and international politics as strategies to govern theatmosphere, an alternative approach could be voluntary initiatives in which the complexity of the globalcommon-pool resource (CPR) is reduced. Assessing such an approach through a case study of food standarddevelopment in Sweden, the outcome is two-sided. By means of scientific explanations and stakeholder dialogue,standards were produced, but attentiveness to CPR management diminished as focus turned towards producerinterests and efficiency increasing measures. Although the climate issue was promoted, the outcome was farfrom the needed change and illustrates difficulties to deviate from prevailing priorities. In order to balance localinterests and power with global and intertemporal values, and reach absolute emission cuts, change in norms andgovernance on every level would be needed.

The call for strong sustainability / Karl Johan Bonnedahl and Pasi Heikkurinen -- The long history of unsustainability : inter-species relations since the 1850s / Tarja Ketola, Tuomas Räsänen and Taina Syrjämaa -- Rethinking economic ontologies : from scarcity and market subjects to strong sustainability / Teppo Eskelinen and Kristoffer Wilén -- Rights of nature as a prerequisite for sustainability / Pella Larsdotter Thiel and Henrik Hallgren -- The energy ethic and strong sustainability : outlining key principles for a moral compass / Giovanni Frigo -- Ecosystem infrastructure for sustainability : revaluating nature through community-based water and land policies in Brazil / Mohammad Al-Saidi and Renata Buriti -- Urban ecosystem services and stakeholders : towards a sustainable capability approach / Anna Heikkinen, Hannela Mäkelä, Johanna Kujala, Jere Nieminen, Ari Jokinen and Hanna Rekola -- Meat consumption and the environmental unsustainability of economic growth : the case of China / Jennifer Rivers Cole and Suzanne K. McCoskey -- Business models based on strongly sustainable entrepreneurship : insights from a systemic literature review / Herman Stål -- Biodiversity as integral to strongly sustainable supply chains : review and exemplars in the natural resources sectors / Anne Quarshie, Asta Salmi, Joanna Scott-Kennel and Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen -- Sustainable investment and degrowth / Tommi Lehtonen -- Strongly sustainable consumption and a case of mistaken identity : a qualitative study on environmentally concerned individuals / Kristoffer Wilén and Tiina Taipale -- Being matters : a holistic conception of wellbeing in the shift towards strongly sustainable societies / Tuula Helne -- Relearning with permaculture : exploring knowledges of innovation for strong sustainability / Maxim Vlasov and Zsuzsanna Vincze -- Redesigning community as an ecovillage : lessons from Earthaven / Todd Levasseur and Lee Warren -- Dead ends and living futures : a framework for sustainable change / Pasi Heikkurinen and Karl Johan Bonnedahl.

The response of the international community to the pressing socio-ecological problems has been framed around the concept of 'sustainable development'. The ecological pressure, however, has continued to rise and mainstream sustainability discourse has proven to be problematic. It contains an instrumental view of the world, a strong focus on technological solutions, and the premise that natural and human-made 'capitals' are substitutable. This trajectory, which is referred to as 'weak sustainability', reproduces inequalities, denies intrinsic values in nature, and jeopardises the wellbeing of humans as well as other beings. Based on the assumptions of strong sustainability, this edited book presents practical and theoretical alternatives to today's unsustainable societies. It investigates and advances pathways for humanity that are ecologically realistic, ethically inclusive, and receptive to the task's magnitude and urgency. The book challenges the traditional anthropocentric ethos and ontology, economic growth-dogma, and programmes of ecological modernisation. It discusses options with examples on different levels of analysis, from the individual to the global, addressing the economic system, key sectors of society, alternative lifestyles, and experiences of local communities. Examining key topics including human-nature relations and wealth and justice, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental and development studies, ecological economics, environmental governance and policy, sustainable business, and sustainability science.

Sustainable development has been an important policy goal for the international community for over three decades. Still, the state of the planet continues to worsen. This conceptual article considers the failure largely a result of structural obstacles and the so-called weak sustainability discourse, popularized by the Brundtland report and manifested today in The 2030 Agenda. The article adopts a strong sustainability perspective for examining structural distances between actors and the consequences of their acts. We argue that these impede responsible action and that policy should aim to reduce or eliminate distances in the four dimensions of space, time, functions and relations. The article concludes by suggesting Strongly Sustainable Development Goals, which could help transitioning humanity towards sustainability, lower the anthropogenic environmental impact on the planet, and enable the continuity of diverse life on Earth. ; Peer reviewed

Sustainable development has been an important policy goal for the international community for over threedecades. Still, the state of the planet continues to worsen. This conceptual article considers the failure largely aresult of structural obstacles and the so-called weak sustainability discourse, popularized by the Brundtlandreport and manifested today in The 2030 Agenda. The article adopts a strong sustainability perspective forexamining structural distances between actors and the consequences of their acts. We argue that these impederesponsible action and that policy should aim to reduce or eliminate distances in the four dimensions of space,time, functions and relations. The article concludes by suggesting Strongly Sustainable Development Goals,which could help transitioning humanity towards sustainability, lower the anthropogenic environmental impacton the planet, and enable the continuity of diverse life on Earth.

The article bridges the gap between ecology and mind in organization theory by exploring the role of psychological suffering for sustainable organizing. In particular, it shows how burn-out, experiential deprivation, and ecological anxiety prompt ecopreneurs within the Swedish back-to-the-land movement to become ecologically embedded. Three counter-practices illustrate how this suffering represents an inner revolt against the exploitative structures of modern society and growth capitalism, and a catalyst for alternative ecopreneurship. The article takes the first steps toward critical ecopsychology of organizations, which offers an ecocentric ontology and a moral-political framework for degrowth transition.