The role of non-state actors in the green transition : building a sustainable future / edited by Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset and Simon Lex.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoff, Jens, editor.

Gausset, Quentin, editor.

Lex, Simon, editor.

Series:

Routledge explorations in environmental studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Citizen participation--Case studies.

Sustainable development.

Environmental policy--Citizen participation--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Sustainable urban development--Case studies.

Sustainable urban development.

Environmental policy--Citizen participation.

Sustainable development--Citizen participation.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors. The volume explores the contribution of non-state actors to a sustainable transition, starting with citizens and communities of different kinds and ending with cities and city-networks. The authors analyse social, cultural, political and economic drivers and barriers for this transition, from individual behaviour to structural restraints, and investigate interplay between the two. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies from the UK, Australia, Germany, Italy and Denmark, and a number of comparative case studies, the volume provides an empirically and theoretically robust argument that highlights the need to develop, widen and scale up collective action and community-based engagement if the transition to sustainability is to be successful. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, sustainability and environmental policy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sustainable societies : committed people in supportive conditions / Laura Henn and Florian G. Kaiser

'It has to be reasonable' : pragmatic ways of living sustainably in Danish eco-communities / Anette Høite Hansen

Stronger together : how Danish environmental communities influence behavioural and societal changes / Quentin Gausset

Are vegetables political? : the traces of the Copenhagen Food Coop / Jens Hoff and Mine Islar

Rethinking environmentalism in a 'ruined' world : lessons from the permaculture movement / Laura Centemeri

Urban green communities : towards a pragmatic sociology of civic commonality in sustainable city-making / Anette Gravgaard Christensen, Jakob Laage-Thomsen and Anders Blok

The stop wasting food movement as a community of potentialities / Simon Lex and Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

There was no 'there' there any more : an Australian story about knowledge, power and resistance / Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Labour organising against climate change : the case of fracking in the UK / Vivian Price

Why does everyone think cities can save the planet? / Hillary Angelo and David Wachsmuth

Imagining the net zero emissions city : urban climate governance in the city of Melbourne, Australia / Stephen Pollard

Governing the transnational : exploring the governance tools of 100 resilient cities / Anne Bach Nielsen

Sustainability, democracy and the techno-human future / Clark A. Miller.

Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Role of non-state actors in the green transition.

ISBN:

9780367235598

0367235595

OCLC:

1119973605