About the Book: Reducing Inequalities: A Sustainable Development Challenge
"The reduction of inequalities within and between countriesstands as a policy
goal, and deserves to take centre stage in Thedesign of the Sustainable
Development Goals agreed during TheRio+20 Summit in 2012.
The 2013 edition of A Planet for Life represents a uniqueinternational
initiative grounded on conceptual and strategicthinking, and - most importantly
- empirical experiments, conductedon five continents and touching on multiple
realities. thisunprecedented collection of works proposes a solid
empiricalapproach, rather than an ideological one, to inform futuredebate.
The case studies collected in this volume demonstrate Thecomplexity of the new
systems required to accommodate each countrysspecific economic, political