UID:
almahu_9949753239002882
Format:
1 online resource (316 pages)
ISBN:
9781035324002 (e-book)
Content:
"In this innovative work, Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Monica Gruezmacher analyse the challenges and possibilities of sustainability transitions, presenting the dilemmas facing the path to more sustainable communities and societies, as well as proposing creative solutions. The authors deploy evolutionary governance theory as a conceptual framing for transition strategy, highlighting the importance of understanding governance and community strategy in any potential response to environmental crises. This timely book expertly draws on a wide range of disciplines and theories, in considering the limitations imposed by unpredictable dynamics of power, discourse and affect and the shifting boundaries of what is governable. The authors demonstrate the creative potential of both instabilities and rigidities in governance. Chapters detail the basics of evolutionary governance theory, developing and applying it to transition strategy by engaging in an accessible manner with post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, institutional economics, systems theory and critical management studies. In a clearly constructed theoretical narrative, the results of this engagement become clear, in a new understanding of the weight of the past on governance and community, the construction of temporality, change and strategic change, contextual notions of good governance, and how these affect major shifts towards sustainability. Strategy for Sustainability Transitions is an important addition to an ever-expanding and crucial field. Particularly relevant to practitioners and policy-makers interested in sustainable development and environmental governance, it will greatly appeal to students and scholars of human geography, public policy and administration, environmental politics and planning and development studies"--
Note:
Contents: 1. Introduction: Transitions, grand challenges and big promises -- 2. Basic concepts for transition mapping: Governance and its actors -- 3. Basic concepts for transition mapping: Institutions -- 4. Governance paths as history and infrastructure for transition -- 5. The realm of discourse: Stories and concepts in governance and community -- 6. Power and knowledge in governance: Enabling, structuring and hindering transitions -- 7. Rigidities in governance and transition: Dependencies -- 8. Flexibility and change: Finding a balance in governance and transition -- 9. Looking forward and back: Building futures and encoding pasts in governance -- 10. Strategy in governance: Communities and their futures reimagined and reconstructed -- 11. Transitions reconsidered: Navigating dilemmas, negotiating futures, affecting identities -- 12. If people don't like it: Resistance, backlash and counterstrategy -- 13. Good governance as a precondition and goal in sustainability transitions -- 14. Conclusion: Strategy in governance for transition -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781035323999 (hardback)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781035324002/9781035324002.xml
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