The path to global sustainable development is participatory democratic global governance - the only truly effective path to confronting pandemics, military conflict, climate change, biodiversity loss, and potential overall ecological collapse. Democracy for a Sustainable World explains why global democracy and global sustainable development must be achieved and why they can only be achieved jointly. It recounts the obstacles to participatory democratic global governance and describes how they can be overcome through a combination of right representation and sortition, starting with linking and scaling innovative local and regional sustainability experiments worldwide. Beginning with a visit to the birthplace of democracy in ancient Athens, a hillside called the Pnyx, James Bacchus explores how the Athenians practiced democratic participation millennia ago. He draws on the successes and shortfalls of Athenian democracy to offer specific proposals for meeting today's challenges by constructing participatory democratic global governance for full human flourishing in a sustainable world.

Vorwort
Explains the relationship between democracy and sustainable development and how participatory democracy can be created globally.

Autorentext
James Bacchus is Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the Chairman the chief judge of the highest tribunal of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. He is a former Member of the Congress of the United States, from Florida. His previous books include two published by Cambridge University Press, The Willing World (2018) and Trade Links (2022), which were both listed as 'Best Books' by the Financial Times.

Zusammenfassung
Explains the relationship between democracy and sustainable development, showing why one cannot be accomplished without the other, and how innovative local and regional experiments in democratic participation can be linked up and scaled up to help achieve the democratic global governance that is a prerequisite for global sustainable development.

Inhalt

1. Greek Fires: Hot Stones in the Path; 2. Human Goals: Finding the Path; 3. Human Action: The Path Is Participation; 4. Athenian Origins: Prelude to the Path; 5. Democratia: Cleisthenes and the Athenians Discover the Path; 6. Rowing the Triremes: Participation as Cooperation for Democracy and Sustainable Development; 7. Aristotle's Garden: Participation as Naturization in the Natural World; 8. In the Footsteps of Cleisthenes: Participation as Liberation Through True Self-Rule; 9. The Vision of Pericles: Participation as Deliberation and Sortition; 10. Frogs Around a Pond: Participation as a Global Framework for Human Imagination; 11. Plato's Living Thoughts: Participation as New Institutions of Global Sortition; 12. The Wall in the Stoa: The Tools for Participation Through Sortition; 13. Reimagining Athens: Participation as Political Will.