Transformation from Wall Street to Wellbeing

Introduction and Overview.- Vulnerability and risk: Towards stewardship of a post carbon economy.- Facing up to fin de siecle culture.- New Regionalist monitory democracy and governance: A reply to the so-called problem of cosmopolitan politics.- Greed and Complicity: Responsibility to others and future generations.- Conclusion: towards a nonanthropocentric stewardship approach.- Post Script: responding to existential risks.- Executive Summary.- User Guide: For Engagement to address climate change through participatory democracy and governance.

Janet McIntyre-Mills is Associate Professor Flinders University, and Adjunct Professor University of Indonesia. Her books address social and environmental justice concerns and include, for example: 'Global Citizenship and Social Movements', Harwood, McMillan, 'Critical Systemic Praxis for Social and Environmental Justice', Springer; 'Systemic Governance and Accountability: working and re-working the conceptual and spatial boundaries,' published by Springer; 'User Centric policy design to address complex need's, Nova Science. Emergence has recently published 'Identity, democracy and sustainability'. It proposes a new architecture for governance.

Her research addresses wellbeing, consciousness and cosmopolitan ethics associated with the design and transformation of governance and democracy. It focuses on excessive social, economic and environmental consumption and suggests ways to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change through protecting cultural ecosystems. She is a board member of several journals, including the Journal of Globalization Studies, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, for example. She is an elected board member of Research Committee 10 on Participation and Organizational Transformation of the International Sociological Association, and has participated in Research Committee 51 of Socio-cybernetics. She is also a member of the International Systems Sciences and the Action Learning and Action Association.