How can a region that is climate change hot-spot, and home of the worlds largest coal export port make a transition from Carbon Valley to a future Beyond Coal? In Australias Hunter Valley, community distress about the cumulative local ecological and human health impacts of mines and power stations and alarm about global climate change has given rise to a vocal, growing and globally-linked social movement that is challenging the rule of King Coal, and demanding a transition from historic coal dependency to a clean energy economy. Using complexity theory and trans-disciplinary science, Geoff...