Pragmatic Sustainability

<p> This second edition of <em>Pragmatic Sustainability</em> proposes a pragmatic discursive and pluralistic approach to thinking about sustainability.. Rather than suggesting a single solution to the problem of how to live sustainably this collection discusses broader approaches to social and environmental change.</p><p>Eight continuing authors and seven new ones adjust their dispositions toward rapidly changing and still unsustainable conditions forging agreements and disagreements on five overlapping themes: the <i>Grounds for Sustainability; </i>the critique of <i>Technological Culture; </i>the need to conceive of <i>Sustainability in Place; </i>in <i>Cities</i>; finally asking how should we reimagine the fraught relationship between <i>Civil Society Industry </i>and <i>Regulation?</i> Editor Steven A. Moore asks how a set of ideas now more than a century old remains relevant. A partial answer can be found in reconstructing the very modern ideas confronted by those who came to call themselves Pragmatists at the beginning of the twentieth century—<i>evolution ecology</i> and <i>design. </i>Moore argues that we have yet to develop dispositions in theory and practice that critically integrate these ideas into sustainable development. </p><p>In sum this new edition provides a fresh and hopeful look at the wicked problems deliberated by almost anyone engaged in adapting to the always changing conditions of the built world. </p>