Sustainability Transformations: Agents and Drivers Across Societies

ISBN-13: 9781108720373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str.

Bjorn-Ola Linner; Victoria Wibeck

Opis

This volume compares how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand the agents and drivers of societal change towards sustainability, using data from academic literature, news media and lay people. It is a valuable resource for academics and policymakers in environmental governance and sustainability.

Recenzje

'This deeply researched project, produced by two Swedish professors of environmental change, extracts the meanings of sustainability transformation from national and international policy documents, and completes the portrait through analysis of vivid focus group interactions from sites in Cabo Verde, Guangzhou (China), Fiji, Sweden, and Boulder (US) … Linnér and Wibeck (both, Linköping Univ.) conclude that strong, inclusive, and transparent institutions are essential for pursuing the path forward. The book includes an excellent bibliography, and will benefit advanced students and their instructors in international relations, public policy, and environmental studies.' D. B. Robertson, Choice

Spis treści

Part I. Making Sense of Transformations: 1. How do we change the world?; 2. Sense-making analysis; 3. How societies change: theories of transformation; Part II. Varieties of Transformations to Sustainability: 4. Global arenas of transformations; 5. Localizing transformations; 6. Transformation narratives; Part III. Manoeuvring in a Multi-Transformational World: 7. Governing transformations; 8. Our transforming world; References; Index.