Societal Transitions to Sustainability
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783032073945 (ISBN)
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This open access book responds to the need for rapid and transformative societal change towards a sustainable future. The editorial introduction and conclusion bookend 27 case chapters about urban sites of experimentation and contestation, spaces of conviviality and politics, sectoral movements, and cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary transitions. These short case chapters address the prefigurative politics of present transformations based on wide-ranging empirical and conceptual analyses. They span societal transitions in and across sectors such as energy, food, and transport. Three key insights concern the multi-scalar nature of prefiguration, its entanglement with boundary transgression, and the multiple temporalities of prefigurative politics in the present.
Siddharth Sareen is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo. He is an award-winning environmental social scientist with a background in development studies, political ecology, and human geography. He works on the governance of energy transitions at multiple scales in and across sectors such as solar energy, electricity grids, urban transport, and forestry. Sareen has held research positions at institutions in seven countries and supervised over 50 postgraduates. He engages actively in research policy and developing the next generation of social scientists to inform, engage with, and enact more inclusive and just energy futures.
Sirkku Juhola is Full Professor of urban environmental policy at the Ecosystems and Environment Research Program at the University of Helsinki and leads the multidisciplinary research group Urban Environmental Policy. She holds degrees from the University of East Anglia and University of Sussex in international relations and development, and has worked at the United Nations University in Tokyo. She is a contributing author of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, a lead author in the Third Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities, and a member of the Finnish Climate Change Panel.
Foreword: Patterning a Sustainable Future (Karen O Brien).- Chapter 1. The Prefigurative Politics of Present Transformation (Siddharth Sareen and Sirkku Juhola).- Part I: Urban Sites of Experimentation and Contestation.-Chapter 2. Acclimatising to the Future: Prefiguration and Urban Experimentation in Public Policy (Bård Torvetjønn Haugland and Timo von Wirth).- Chapter 3. Prefigurative Politics in Citizen Science: The Golf Vinor Project as a Case of Present Transformations (David Stella).- Chapter 4. Prefiguring Consumption Reduction in Shadow Networks: Recirculating Resources, Knowledge and Skills in Urban Tool Libraries and Community Bike Workshops (Simon Batterbury, Sabrina Chakori and Carlos Uxo).- Chapter 5. Starting by Doing: Ethical Orientations for Open-Ended Prefigurative Action (Bob Grumiau and Ian Hughes).- Chapter 6. Prefigurative politics of post-growth futures in the making: learning from transformative practices that leverage (temporary) convivial space (Steven R. McGreevy, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan and Maximilian Spiegelberg).- Part II: Spaces of conviviality and politics.- Chapter 7. Broadening the Understanding of Deconstruction in Prefigurative Social Spaces
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability |
| Zusatzinfo | X, 461 p. 19 illus., 16 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Schlagworte | Co-Creating Transformations • cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary transitions • environmental transitions • interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration • open access • spaces of conviviality and politics • sustainable transitions • Urban scale |
| ISBN-13 | 9783032073945 / 9783032073945 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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