Ecological Limits of Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals - Paperback

by Kaitlin Kish (Author), Stephen Quilley (Author)

Embracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume uses the technical tools from ecological economics to re-cast the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Ecological Livelihood Goals.

Author Biography

Kaitlin Kish is Research Associate for the Ecological Footprint Initiative at York University in collaboration with the Global Footprint Network and Lecturer of Ecological Economics at the University of British Columbia's Haida Gwaii Institute, Canada. She is Vice- President - Programs for the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, a research fellow with Economics for the Anthropocene at McGill University, and held a doctoral research fellowship with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo.

Stephen Quilley is Associate Professor of Social and Environmental Innovation in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Trained in historical sociology and political economy, he has previously held tenured positions at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Keele University in the UK, and a lectureship and a research fellowship at the Moscow School of Economic and Social Science and the University of Manchester.