Sustainability Transformations, Social Transitions and Environmental Accountabilities

by Beth Edmondson (editor)

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 how can they contribute to sustainability transformations, how do they influence the scalability of sustainability transformations, and, how can such sustainability transformations become durable?

414 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 27, 2023

Reviews

[Sarah Clement · Rating 5 out of 5]

With the disclaimer that I wrote one of the chapters in this book, I thought the other chapters in this volume were great. The book provides a lot of food for thought on a number of concepts that are everywhere in policy, but often vague or abstract. This isn't a book you need to read cover to cover, but unlike many other edited volumes, I do feel it holds together. A great overview of some really important concepts that are pretty nebulous and overused in policy, but from a grounded perspective that links theory to practice.