The critical role of non-state actors from communities to social movements, and trade unions and cities, in accelerating green transitions, has been neglected. This volume makes an important contribution by showcasing examples across actors, sectors, regions and issues. It shows how much innovation there is from below driving transitions that are both socially just and environmentally sustainable.
Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK
The corporations have failed us. The politicians have failed us. Who is going to create the sustainable society? This book introduces a great variety of important and realistic sustainability initiatives at the grassroots that go beyond the failing technocratic solutions of the market and the state.
Pasi Heikkurinen, Lecturer in Management at the University of Helsinki, Finland
The need to respect planetary boundaries is acutely recognised. This conceptually and empirically rich collection of essays analyses non-state sustainability initiatives that, together, have significant potential to help navigate the complex challenges ahead. This book should be read by everyone with a stake in sustaining life on earth in other words, all of us.
Clare Saunders, Professor of Environmental Politics, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, UK
The Role of Non-state Actors in the Green Transition
This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors.
The volume explores the contribution of non-state actors to a sustainable transition, starting with citizens and communities of different kinds and ending with cities and city-networks. The authors analyse social, cultural, political and economic drivers and barriers for this transition, from individual behaviour to structural restraints, and investigate the interplay between the two. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies from the UK, Australia, Germany, Italy and Denmark, and a number of comparative case studies, the volume provides an empirically and theoretically robust argument that highlights the need to develop, widen and scale-up collective action and community-based engagement if the transition to sustainability is to be successful.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, sustainability and environmental policy.
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
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Contents
JENS HOFF, QUENTIN GAUSSET AND SIMON WESTERGARD LEX
LAURA HEN AND FLORIAN G . KAISER
ANETE HITE HANSEN
QUENTIN GAUSET
JENS HOF AND MINE ISLAR
LAURA CENTEMERI
ANETE GRAVGARD CHRISTENSEN, JAKOB LAAGE-THOMSEN AND A NDERS BLOK
SIMON LEX AND HENRIK HVENEGARD MIKELSEN
THOMAS HYLAND ERIKSEN
VIVIAN PRICE
HILARY ANGELO AND DAVID WACHSMUTH
STEPHEN POLARD
ANNE BACH NIELSEN
CLARK A. MILER
Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studies the relationship between nature and urbanisation from historical, theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Her work has been published in leading sociology and geography journals, and her book, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.
Anders Blok is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He currently leads a collective research project on civic urban greening communities in Denmark, combining urban and environmental sociology.
Laura Centemeri is CNRS researcher in Environmental Sociology at the Centre dEtude des Mouvements Sociaux (EHESS-CNRS-INSERM). Among her recent publications La permaculture ou lart de rhabiter (QUAE 2019).
Anette Gravgaard Christensen is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. She previously worked as an urban planner. In her PhD, she studies the social dynamics of long-term collaborative planning between municipalities and civil society actors on developing public urban greenspace.
