Sustainability Transformations, Social Transitions and Environmental Accountabilities

ISBN-13: 9783031182679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 284 str.

Beth Edmondson

Opis

This book draws upon diverse approaches and understandings of sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities. It presents case studies that highlight real-world consequences of changing ideas about how best to achieve effective and durable sustainability transformations and examines how environmental accountabilities and social transitions influence sustainability transformations. Each chapter provides insights regarding how new knowledge and perspectives matter for whether, when, and how people, governments, corporations and international organisations seek and pursue solutions to social-ecological challenges and sustainability dilemmas. It pays sustained attention to whether and how understandings and applications of accountability can improve international sustainability transformations. The chapters presented in this book consider some pressing questions concerning social transitions and environmental accountabilities: how can they contribute to sustainability transformations, how do they influence the scalability of sustainability transformations, and, how can such sustainability transformations become durable?

Spis treści

Table of contents

 

Chapter 1 Sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities: past and present entanglements Beth Edmondson

 

Chapter 2 Evaluating Transformation Means Transforming Evaluation Michael Quinn Patton

 

Chapter 3 Climate ethics in carbon footprints David Foord

 

Chapter 4 Nature, Democracy, and Sustainable Urban Transformations Sarah Clement  and Ian Mell

 

Chapter 5 Sustainability transformations and environmental accountability Beth Edmondson

 

Chapter 6 Accountable solar energy transitions in financially constrained contexts Siddharth Sareen,  Shayan Shokrgozar, Renée Neven-Scharnigg, Bérénice Girard, Abigail Martin and  Steven Wolf

 

Chapter 7 Building socio-environmental resilience Jane Mummery and Josephine Mummery

 

Chapter 8 Accountable environmental outcomes: collaborative governance and sustainability transformations Candice Carr Kelman

 

Chapter 9  Environmental stewardship for sustainability transformations Pat Bonney and Jess Reeves

 

Chapter 10 Tackling the environmental and climate footprint of food systems: How “transformative” is the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy? Jale Tosun and Charlene Marek

 

 

Chapter 11 Just Transitions in the Context of Urgent Climate Action Lars Coenen and Bruce Wilson

 

 

Chapter 12 Sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities: emerging opportunities  Beth Edmondson

O autorze

Beth Edmondson is an independent researcher based in Australia. Her work focuses on international responses to global climate change, the possibilities for order in the international political system, the nature of sovereignty and the scope of international law in constructing governmental capacities.

Blurb

This book draws upon diverse approaches and understandings of sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities. It presents case studies that highlight real-world consequences of changing ideas about how best to achieve effective and durable sustainability transformations and examines how environmental accountabilities and social transitions influence sustainability transformations. Each chapter provides insights regarding how new knowledge and perspectives matter for whether, when, and how people, governments, corporations and international organisations seek and pursue solutions to social-ecological challenges and sustainability dilemmas. It pays sustained attention to whether and how understandings and applications of accountability can improve international sustainability transformations. The chapters presented in this book consider some pressing questions concerning social transitions and environmental accountabilities: how can they contribute to sustainability transformations, how do they influence the scalability of sustainability transformations, and, how can such sustainability transformations become durable?

Beth Edmondson is an independent researcher based in Australia. Her work focuses on international responses to global climate change, the possibilities for order in the international political system, the nature of sovereignty and the scope of international law in constructing governmental capacities.