Sustainability Transformations, Social Transitions and Environmental Accountabilities

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-18270-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 461 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability

This book draws upon diverse approaches and understandings of sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities. It presents case studies that highlight real-world consequences of changing ideas about how best to achieve effective and durable sustainability transformations and examines how environmental accountabilities and social transitions influence sustainability transformations. Each chapter provides insights regarding how new knowledge and perspectives matter for whether, when, and how people, governments, corporations and international organisations seek and pursue solutions to social-ecological challenges and sustainability dilemmas. It pays sustained attention to whether and how understandings and applications of accountability can improve international sustainability transformations. The chapters presented in this book consider some pressing questions concerning social transitions and environmental accountabilities: how can they contribute to sustainability transformations, how do they influence the scalability of sustainability transformations, and, how can such sustainability transformations become durable?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmondson, Beth

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities: past and present entanglement.- 2. Evaluating Transformation Means Transforming Evaluation.- 3. Climate ethics in carbon footprints.- 4. Nature, Democracy, and Sustainable Urban Transformations.- 5. Sustainability transformations and environmental accountability.- 6. Accountable solar energy transitions in financially constrained contexts.- 7. Building socio-environmental resilience.- 8. Accountable environmental outcomes: collaborative governance and sustainability transformations.- 9. Environmental stewardship for sustainability transformations.- 10. Tackling the environmental and climate footprint of food systems: How “transformative” is the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy? - 11. Just Transitions in the Context of Urgent Climate Action.- 12. Sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities: emerging opportunities.

Über Autor(innen)

Beth Edmondson is an independent researcher based in Australia. Her work focuses on international responses to global climate change, the possibilities for order in the international political system, the nature of sovereignty and the scope of international law in constructing governmental capacities.