The Role of Non-State Actors in the Green Transition: Building a Sustainable Future

ISBN-13: 9780367777159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

Jens Hoff; Quentin Gausset; Simon Lex

Opis

This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, sustainability and environmental policy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part 1. Individual and Collective Sustainable Norms and Behaviour  2. Sustainable Societies: Committed People in Supportive Conditions  3. 'It has to be Reasonable’: Pragmatic Ways of Living Sustainably in Danish Eco-Communities  4. Stronger Together: How Danish Environmental Communities Influence Behavioural and Societal Changes  Part 2. Grassroots, green communities and social impact  5. Are Vegetables Political? The Traces of the Copenhagen Food Coop  6. Rethinking Environmentalism in a ’Ruined’ World: Lessons from the Permaculture Movement  7. Urban Green Communities: Towards a Pragmatic Sociology of Civic Commonality in Sustainable City-Making  8. The Stop Wasting Food Movement as a Community of Potentialities  9.There Was No ’There’ There Any More: An Australian Story About Knowledge, Power and Resistance  10. Labour Organising Against Climate Change: The Case of Fracking in the UK  Part 3. Creating sustainable cities and infrastructures  11. Why Does Everyone Think Cities Can Save The Planet?  12. Imagining the Net Zero Emissions City: Urban Climate Governance in the City of Melbourne, Australia  13. Governing the Transnational: Exploring the Governance Tools of 100 Resilient Cities  14. Sustainability, Democracy and the Techno-Human Future

 

O autorze

Jens Hoff is Professor in Political Science and leader of the Centre for Sustainability and Society at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Quentin Gausset is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Simon Lex is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark