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This book on peace and justice for all is part of a path-breaking initiative by Springer Nature heralding a new publication format compiling auto-summaries of literature. State-of-the-art computer algorithms were applied to select relevant sources from original articles published by Springer Nature. The selection was then rearranged in a topical order, and short summaries of the selected articles were provided. The result is the auto-summarization of current texts, organized by means of a similarity-based clustering routine in coherent chapters and sections.

The book collects material from about 150 original research articles published from 2018 to 2022. Every chapter comes with an introduction by the human expert that connects the dots of content chosen for that chapter and attempts to fill gap areas. In addition to more conventional topics such as crimes against women, children, and marginalized communities, human trafficking, criminal justice, activist suppression, access to social justice, institutions, and so on, the book contains discussions on relatively newer areas such as environmental and ecological justice. The book serves as a useful resource for anyone who wants to gain a quick overview of the topic, especially current developments in the field. Due to interdisciplinary nature of the content, the content is of importance to readers from a wide array of humanitarian research.

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This comprehensive work examines the vital role of dredging equipment in national economic and defense development, highlighting seven decades of remarkable progress in China's shipbuilding industry. Through detailed analysis of technological evolution, the book showcases how Chinese workers and technical personnel demonstrated exceptional self-reliance while advancing from basic dredging equipment to sophisticated world-class machines. The narrative particularly emphasizes the industry's journey of overcoming technical challenges, documenting the transformation that has positioned China as a global leader in dredging technology. As a reference work, it offers invaluable insights and practical knowledge specifically tailored for workers, cadres, and technical personnel in related fields.

This book manifests the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) framework propounded by the United Nations (UN), which connects sports to physical activity and human health outcomes through its ability to combat chronic diseases and improve mental and physical health. The UN also considers sports a catalyst for the socialization of children, youths and adults, the social inclusion of the disadvantaged, economic development of local communities, and a means of fostering intercultural exchange and conflict resolution.

This volume is the first effort of its kind that seeks to examine the scope of sports to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 16, particularly in India, by way of promoting peaceful and inclusive societies. As well, it provides a platform for achieving justice for all; building effective, accountable, and inclusive communication between institutions at all levels; and ensuring equality across ethnicity, faith, and sexual orientation in any corner of the globe.

The content of this volume will be of great interest especially to sports enthusiasts, sports event organizers, trainers, management faculty, students, and scholars. In a broader scenario, however, the discussions will be helpful for policymakers to find an alternative avenue of achieving SDG through the management and promotion of sports, not only in India but in many countries in the global south.

This open access book is an exploration of a new economic paradigm that envisions regenerative civilizations. It dives into the conceptual foundations for a new economic architecture, explores building blocks of regenerative economies and shows a tapestry of economic practices pioneering the new. On the backdrop of the multiplicity of contemporary global crises and the deficiencies of prevailing economic paradigms it departs from traditional economic models. Authored by a diverse group of notable international experts, the book advocates for a fundamental shift in understanding the purpose of economies as a cornerstone of societal wellbeing. It lays the groundwork by emphasizing life-centered core elements of economies such as ecology, peace, sustainability, care, and the role of the commons. This book serves as a thought-provoking guide for policymakers, economists, and concerned scholars, urging a shift towards regenerative civilizations informed by life-sustaining economic systems.

Revealing the hidden worlds of peatlands and their potential to fight climate change

Bogs, fens, mires, moors, muskegs, and pocosins - they are found in nearly all the world's climatic zones but are easily overlooked in our landscapes. Yet these murky ecosystems formed of decay are both full of life and crucial to our planetary wellbeing: covering only about three percent of the earth's surface, peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests combined. In Water, Carbon, Time, Jennifer de Mooy shares her personal discovery of these natural wonders in all their variety and understated beauty, bringing much-needed attention to the restorative possibilities of their spongy depths.

De Mooy first encountered peatlands on a trip to Ireland with her father, but her later work on climate change policy in the United States motivated her to investigate options for reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Her interest was practical: could peatlands combat global warming? To deepen her understanding of these unique wetlands, she embarked on a quest from bogs and fens in Minnesota and Maine to bofedales in Peru and muskegs in Canada and Alaska. A vivid account of her journey, Water, Carbon, Time describes these peatlands in all their richness and mystery: what they are and how to find them, the diversity of ecological life they support, and how their hidden systems promote climate resilience.

As she learns more about the importance of peatlands, de Mooy emphasizes all we lose when they are damaged by drainage, fire, and the broader sweep of climate change. When peatlands are threatened, we risk releasing stored carbon from their soil, where it has accumulated over millennia, into the atmosphere. In parts a travelogue, an ecological history, and a call to action, Water, Carbon, Time demonstrates there is still hope for these precious ecosystems - and their potential as a natural climate solution right beneath our feet.

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This book is a curated literature overview that explores the evolving framework of climate justice as it intersects with global politics, ethics, economics, and human rights. It offers a structured overview of the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change, focusing on questions of responsibility, equity, and governance. At its core, the book examines who bears the greatest burden for reducing emissions and how to address the disproportionate impacts on communities least responsible for climate change. Organised across six chapters from definitional foundations through historical development, planetary-scale analysis, landscape- and community-level impacts, political dynamics, and forward-looking governance, the volume traces how the same structural asymmetry recurs at every scale: the populations least responsible for climate change bear its greatest consequences. It investigates climate-induced displacement, the rights of climate refugees, and the risks of policy solutions that may exacerbate existing vulnerabilities.
This volume also engages with the tensions between development and sustainability, particularly in emerging economies and climate-vulnerable regions. It addresses historical responsibility, climate reparations, and the financial mechanisms required to support equitable transitions.
Rather than presenting a static account of these issues, it proposes frameworks for navigating the complex terrain of climate justice. It translates intricate ethical and policy debates into accessible models for understanding, while maintaining analytical depth. The emphasis is on identifying practical, adaptive governance strategies that can inform decision-making across sectors.

This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the world's vital deltaic systems and discusses the environmental challenges they face. It addresses key issues including delta formation, climate extremes, seawater intrusion, changing crop patterns, land degradation, and the factors threatening the sustainability of deltaic landscapes. The volume explores science-based strategies for the management, restoration, improvement, and reclamation of these highly productive yet vulnerable regions, offering guidance for policymakers and stakeholders committed to their long-term preservation.

The book investigates major delta systems, including the Nile, Mississippi, Coastal Louisiana, and Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) deltas, which play crucial roles in global food security and economic development. The volume examines the complex interactions among hydrological processes, land-water dynamics, climate change, and human activities, while also assessing community resilience and diverse resource-management practices from around the world.

The volume emphasizes the importance of safeguarding water, food, and energy resources for the millions of people who depend on deltaic environments and addresses the interconnected challenges of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus. Linking these challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the book offers actionable solutions and practical insights for enhancing delta resilience and sustainability.

This volume serves as an essential resource for policymakers, researchers, earth and environmental scientists, practitioners, and postgraduate students dedicated to understanding and securing the future of the world's deltaic environments.

This book explores and analyzes the dynamic and multifaceted roles that forests play in supporting and accelerating progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development positions forests at the heart of efforts to eradicate poverty, ensure food and water security, combat climate change, and conserve biodiversity. Forests are not only integral to Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life on Land) but also provide cross-cutting contributions to the other SDGs, making them indispensable in the broader landscape of global sustainability. The book emphasizes not only conservation or productivity, but also a holistic understanding of forests as agents of change, ecologically, economically, and socially.

This book features 24 chapters organized around thematic areas including forest-based climate solutions, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, community livelihoods, forest governance, the green economy, and forest health and education linkages. The chapters examine cases, trends, and region-specific challenges while offering practical pathways and recommendations aligned with the SDGs.

This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded analysis of competing visions of the bioeconomy and argues for their reconciliation through the concept of oikos: responsible yet adaptive economic stewardship under conditions of ecological constraint and uncertainty. Drawing on political economy, economic history, and anthropology, it proposes a holistic policy perspective that moves beyond the antagonistic imperatives often implicit in the terms "bio" and "economy." By reframing the bioeconomy as a socio-ecological project rather than a narrowly technocratic one, the book highlights the need to align economic activity with long-term ecological sustainability and social responsibility.

Placing biotechnology at the centre of this discussion, the volume shows how biotechnological practices have long contributed to the sustainable use of biological resources, well before the molecular biology revolution of the 1970s. It examines contemporary strategies that integrate New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) and AI into national and supranational bioeconomy agendas addressing climate change, resource scarcity, and food insecurity. Increased confidence in the precautionary use of NGTs is linked to their continuity with classical mutagenesis and to growing biosafety knowledge and practical experience. Engaging debates on precaution, innovation, and sustainability, the book surveys enabling policy frameworks that support the safe use of biotechnology in pursuit of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It will be a valuable resource for scholars, policymakers, regulators, and professionals working at the interface of science, technology, and sustainability governance.

This book explores climate change education practices characterized by diversifying the usual avenues of academic transfer to have a greater and more relevant impact on the social contexts to which people belong. The educational initiatives showcased in the various chapters address climate change education from a socio-critical perspective, with approaches that are more ambitious than just sustainable development. This book provides researchers basic and applied knowledge on the social, educational, and communicative dimensions of climate change, and brings new ideas to the research community that question the hegemonic approach of sustainable development. Additionally, public institutions, cooperatives, and other entities involved in climate change research, social action, and education will find the initiatives showcased in the book of practical interest.

This book offers a critical examination of psychology's role in addressing today's interconnected social-ecological crises. It argues that while psychological knowledge is crucial, the discipline often falls short by focusing too narrowly on individual behavior and neglecting broader systemic issues. Through critical perspectives on Environmental Psychology, the contributors illustrate the transformative potential of psychology in facing global challenges. They propose that psychology must evolve to address the complexities of our "polycrisis"-a convergence of ecological destruction, social injustice, and economic instability. The book emphasizes the historical roots of these crises in colonialism, capitalism, and systemic inequality, which psychology has often failed to address.

Divided into four sections, the book begins by highlighting the necessary changes within psychology to tackle today's intertwined crises. It critiques the discipline's limitations and advocates for a reassessment of traditional approaches. The second section introduces decolonial and intercultural perspectives, urging the field to embrace diverse knowledge systems and confront power dynamics in research. The third section critically examines psychology's social role, encouraging it to challenge societal inequalities and environmental harm. The concluding chapters demonstrate theory in action, showcasing emancipatory projects that illustrate how psychology can support social and ecological justice in practice. By outlining practical implementations of critical environmental psychology, the book serves as a guide for how psychology can contribute meaningfully to creating a sustainable, equitable world.

This collection is a must-read for researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the environmental, social, and behavioral sciences. It offers fresh insights and practical guidance for those seeking to understand how psychology can actively contribute to building a sustainable and just world.

This book explores the interconnected challenges of climate change, digital disparity, and economic instability, arguing for a unified approach that redefines our social contract. Through a blend of empirical research, personal insights, and case studies, it highlights how historical divestment, such as redlining and colonialism, continues to shape digital and climate inequalities. The narrative moves beyond diagnosis, offering holistic solutions that leverage technology, policy reform, and community sovereignty to promote a more inclusive and sustainable future.

The book Cultural Sustainability: Preservation Heritage in a Modern World reimagines heritage conservation as a dynamic, forward-looking practice essential for addressing contemporary global challenges. Moving beyond traditional preservation models that seek to freeze the past, this interdisciplinary volume presents heritage as a living resource capable of fostering empowerment, resilience, and social justice.

Bringing together diverse case studies from across the globe, the book explores how indigenous games in developing countries serve as tools for community empowerment, how ethnic minority communities in Vietnam leverage traditional knowledge for environmental sustainability, and how historic buildings in Germany are being strengthened against the impacts of climate change. Contributors examine the adaptive reuse of historic schools in Washington, D.C., the role of digital technologies such as 3D scanning in sustaining fashion heritage, and the complex interplay between law, politics, and preservation in Vietnam and the United States. From pilgrim perspectives in Varanasi to safeguarding Indigenous Musical Practices in the Vhembe district, from intergenerational knowledge transmission to visitor engagement in the digital age, this collection demonstrates that cultural sustainability is intrinsically linked to environmental resilience, political stability, and human dignity. Essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, this book makes a compelling case for heritage as a transformative force in building equitable and sustainable Futures.

A transatlantic, more-than-human exploration of LatinX presence, memory, and empire in the heart of Madrid

How does LatinXness begin in the Kingdom of Spain? In The X Catalogue, Claudia Milian offers a vade mecum of Madrid, exploring it as an ecological archive and former imperial metropolis. Approaching the "X" as metaphor, method, and philosophical practice, she extends inquiry beyond the human. Milian traces the "X" through transplanted life from the Americas: the roots of the ahuehuete tree (the Montezuma cypress), the engineering and renaming of the acocoxochitl (the dahlia), the "invasion" of the cotorras argentinas (Monk parakeets), and the exhibition of the caiman (the alligator) as a conquered object.

Critical theory and historical cultural studies meet to remap the Atlantic world through the "Xs" of arrival, circulation, and transformation. By examining how LatinXness inhabits the Spanish capital, Milian breaks open LatinX Spain and global LatinX studies. The X Catalogue resists containment, mirroring its objects of study and challenging categories such as native, foreign, or authentic. It advances a more-than-human, transatlantic understanding of LatinXness within empire studies, environmental humanities, and the critical study of tourism.

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The Land of Cotton is a sweeping environmental and cultural history of cotton's power in the American South. More than the region's signature crop, cotton was a material, symbolic, economic, and ideological force. James C. Giesen's central claim is that the culture of cotton-the ways planters, laborers, boosters, tourist boards, musicians, and a host of others representing the crop-shifted not only with the political moment but in response to the physical world. Cotton lands eroding and becoming forests, labor and technological upheaval, and the rise and fall of constructed environments all changed the rhetorical possibility of the thin white fiber. Cotton festivals, country songs, and sharecroppers' memories shaped and were shaped by the conditions of terrains. By grounding this history in two distinct Southern landscapes-the South Carolina Piedmont and the Mississippi Delta-Giesen reveals how these local conditions forged cotton's cultural power and practical uses. Spanning 150 years, this study shows how the South's most iconic crop remained a literal and figurative site for debates over environmental change, political ideology, and historical memory.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainability, examining the complex relationships among environmental, economic, and socio-cultural systems across a wide range of industries. Moving beyond a narrow focus on environmental protection, it emphasizes the interconnected nature of the three pillars of sustainability and the importance of balancing resource management, economic development, and social equity. As global population growth, resource scarcity, and climate change place increasing pressure on natural and human systems, sustainability has become a critical framework for decision making in both public and private sectors. This text explores how a variety of industries, such as energy, agriculture, tourism, healthcare, fashion, and policy contribute to sustainability challenges and solutions, highlighting both the opportunities and trade-offs involved in pursuing long term resilience.
Designed for graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds, this textbook integrates theoretical foundations with real-world examples, case studies, and global perspectives. It introduces key concepts such as linkages and trade-offs, demonstrating how actions in one domain can influence outcomes in others. In doing so, it encourages readers to think critically about the unintended consequences of development and the importance of interdisciplinary approaches. Ultimately, it strives to prepare future leaders to make informed, ethical decisions that support resilient communities, promote equity, and enhance quality of life for present and future generations.

Rivers, salmon, and dams collide where climate urgency meets justice, memory, and powerHydropower has long defined the Northwest. Massive dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers electrify cities, fuel industrial growth, and help create one of the lowest-carbon electricity systems in the United States. Yet those same structures also flooded Indigenous homelands, transformed river ecosystems, and helped drive the region's iconic salmon toward collapse. Damming Debates examines this profound dilemma at the heart of the region's energy future.

Blending fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, Nik Janos follows the people shaping the hydropower debate-dam operators, policymakers, tribal leaders, environmental advocates, farmers, and river communities-as they wrestle with competing visions. The conflict is often framed as "dams versus fish," but beneath that slogan lies deeper questions about climate responsibility, tribal sovereignty, economic livelihoods, and the meaning of environmental restoration.

Hydropower embodies a central paradox of the clean-energy transition: infrastructure that produces abundant low-carbon electricity can simultaneously perpetuate ecological damage and colonial extraction. In the Northwest, debates about dam removal, salmon recovery, and energy reliability reveal how difficult it is to reconcile climate urgency with justice and ecological repair.

Clear, nuanced, and grounded in voices from across the region, Damming Debates offers an essential guide to a consequential environmental crossroads-and to the broader challenge of building a just energy transition.

This volume places education at the center of today's accelerating global polycrisis. Moving beyond disciplinary silos, it introduces an "Integrated Triadic Focus," positioning education as a transformative force in addressing climate change, forced migration, and systemic inequality. Bringing together leading international scholars, the book delivers a rigorous, multidisciplinary synthesis across theory, lived realities of displacement, indigenous knowledge, and global governance. It challenges Eurocentric paradigms, interrogates institutions such as UNESCO and UNHCR, and advances justice-centered frameworks aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Seed vaults promise salvation-yet their frozen futures carry colonial histories of extraction and controlOften celebrated as humanity's last defense against ecological collapse, seed banks are meant to preserve plant life against extinction. The Last Seed offers a striking reassessment of that promise. Drawing on original fieldwork at major institutions including the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew Gardens, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and seed collections in the United States and India, this book opens the closed world of seed banking to critical scrutiny.

Through feminist science and technology studies and decolonial analysis, Xan Sarah Chacko reveals how contemporary conservation practices remain deeply entangled with the histories of imperial botany and global plant extraction. Seeds preserved in frozen vaults are not merely biological specimens; they are transformed into data, property, and "genetic resources" shaped by institutional priorities, legal regimes, and visions of future agriculture.

The narrative moves between laboratories, archives, and international seed repositories to show how scientific care, bureaucratic classification, and intellectual property regimes reshape relationships among plants, people, and environments. At stake is more than biodiversity preservation: seed banks participate in a broader project of imagining-and controlling-the future of life on Earth.

The Last Seed challenges the comforting image of conservation as neutral stewardship, revealing instead a global system where hope for ecological survival coexists with enduring colonial power.

Design Innovation for Climate-Resilient Built Environments offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how the built environment can adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Bringing together perspectives from architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, urban planning, real estate, and construction management, the book adopts an integrated lens that examines innovation across multiple spatial scales, from cities and regions to streets, buildings, and communities. By bridging these disciplines, it challenges the traditional silos that often shape the planning, design, and management of built environments

The book begins from a simple observation: cities and buildings have always been influenced by climate. Long before the language of climate resilience emerged in contemporary policy debates, societies developed spatial strategies to cope with heat, wind, water, and seasonal variability. Drawing from this long history of environmental adaptation, the book asks how design intelligence can guide architecture and urban form in an era of accelerating climate uncertainty.

The first part, "Design Intelligence for Climate-Resilient Architecture and Urban Form," presents resilience as a design mindset shaped by vernacular knowledge, ecological thinking, and contemporary architectural innovation, aiming to create adaptive and responsive built environments. The second part, "Technological, Infrastructural, and Systemic Pathways to Climate Resilience," shifts attention to the systems that enable resilience at scale, exploring how technologies, infrastructures, and planning frameworks support climate-responsive cities. Together, these perspectives position the book as both a conceptual guide and a practical roadmap for advancing climate-resilient design and urban development.

Cities have entered a phase where climate change is no longer a distant projection but an immediate design constraint. Flooding, heatwaves, coastal erosion, water scarcity, and ecological degradation now shape how cities must be planned, built, and maintained. Responding to these pressures requires a fundamental rethinking of urban systems. Nature-Based and Climate Responsive Design for Urban Systems explores how ecological design innovations can strengthen urban resilience and liveability while reshaping the relationship between cities and their natural environments.

This book is the third volume of a trilogy examining climate-oriented design innovation in the built environment. While the earlier volumes focus on conceptual frameworks and strategic directions, this volume emphasises practical design approaches that integrate natural systems into urban infrastructure and spatial planning. Its central premise is clear: future cities must work with natural processes rather than attempt to control or resist them. Nature-based solutions, blue-green infrastructure, and climate-responsive design are therefore positioned as core components of contemporary urban systems.

Through a diverse set of global case studies, the book demonstrates how ecological design strategies can address challenges such as flooding, coastal vulnerability, water management, and biodiversity loss. Examples from Nepal, Bangladesh, Vanuatu, Mexico, Madagascar, and other regions across the Pacific and Global South illustrate how nature-based approaches support environmental restoration, strengthen community participation, and enhance urban adaptability.

By linking design practice with interdisciplinary research, the book contributes to the growing discourse on climate-responsive urbanism and offers practical insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working toward more resilient and environmentally integrated urban futures.

This volume is a build up to the success of Volume 1 (Redefining Education and Development Innovative Approaches in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals) which was published in 2024. The book aims to demonstrate how higher education institutions are integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into various aspects of education such as teaching, research and institutional practices. Through a series of chapters, the book highlights theoretical frameworks and real-world applications providing evidence-based discussions on how efforts on SDGs impact student engagement, curriculum design, community engagement and future employability. The book is distinct in the sense that it moves beyond general discussions and focusses on practical implementation. The contributors to the book examine case studies, pilot initiatives, culturally rooted methods and technologically driven innovations which offer pathways for rethinking pedagogy and student support. This second volume caters for academics, policy makers, who might be looking for scalable strategies for achieving SDGs in higher education.

Divided into six main sections which opens up with an introductory section. Following the introductory section is a segment that takes a holistic view of SDGs in Higher Education. This section details how sustainability principles shape everything in class pedagogies to broader student support systems, ensuring an integrated approach rather than fragmented once off interventions. The third section delves on cultural context and inclusivity where an exploration of cultural values such as Ubuntu and Hip-Hop Pedagogy. Such approaches examine how responsive teaching and learning methods can break down barriers and enhance inclusivity for diverse student populations. The fourth section of the book looks at Innovative, Practice - Oriented pedagogies which covers the incorporation of digital platforms, camera obscura photography, or entrepreneurship curricula and other creative approaches can result in increased student engagement and better learning outcomes. The fifth section deals with long term impacts and alumni perspectives focussing on employability and entrepreneurial mindsets all which speaks to quality education SDG 4 a critical component of SDG 4. The last section touches on evidence-based Recommendations and Models which touches on delivering quality education.

Toxic Fear explores how fear shaped the public and private lives of those seeking to make sense of pollution in the 1980s. Driving Egan's interest in environmental anxieties is an exploration of the social and political infrastructure that took shape during the final quarter of the twentieth century. Egan ties the uncertainties rippling through American communities and across mainstream media to the neoliberal project and its deference to self-interest as the only path to prosperity. In the 1980s, that meant less government intervention, lower taxes, more privatization, and fewer controls. Above and beyond any economic or social theory, fear unsettled established ways of American life. Just as toxic chemicals became a prominent feature of the American social and physical landscape in the 1980s, traditional forms of state oversight designed to provide security for its people were eroded. Social problems and public safety were outsourced to individuals. The onus of responsibility moved from government and government agencies to a public that had, in the previous decade, abdicated environmental oversight and the necessary scientific literacy to experts no longer equipped for the job.

This book discovers a groundbreaking exploration of sustainable development in the Caribbean. This book reveals how Caribbean nations are navigating the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), offering sharp, critical insights into progress on ending poverty (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2), quality education (SDG 4), decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), industry and innovation (SDG 9), reduced inequalities (SDG 10), climate action (SDG 13), and strong institutions (SDG 16).

Rooted in a powerful decolonizing framework, this book moves beyond conventional analysis to examine how enduring colonial legacies shaped by racism, patriarchy, and economic dependency continue to influence development outcomes. It brings urgent attention to the role of social protection systems, persistent gender inequalities, and the realities of gender-based violence and social exclusion. With a clear focus on the region's unique vulnerabilities, this book not only interrogates challenges but also delivers solutions. It advances innovative, context-specific financing strategies designed to support sustainable and inclusive development across Caribbean states.

Re-centering Caribbean voices and lived experiences, this book challenges dominant global narratives and calls for development approaches that truly reflect post-colonial realities. Essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners, this book offers a bold, transformative vision of what sustainable development can and must look like for the Caribbean.