Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Governance, Community and Environment

Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Monica Gruezmacher (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2399-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Kristof Van Assche, University of Alberta, Canada, Raoul Beunen, Open University, the Netherlands and Monica Gruezmacher, University of Alberta, Canada

Contents:
1 Introduction: transitions, Grand Challenges and big promises 1
2 Basic concepts for transition mapping: governance and its actors 17
3 Basic concepts for transition mapping: institutions 42
4 Governance paths as history and infrastructure for transition 70
5 The realm of discourse: stories and concepts in governance
and community 87
6 Power and knowledge in governance: enabling, structuring
and hindering transitions 108
7 Rigidities in governance and transition: dependencies 123
8 Flexibility and change: finding a balance in governance and
transition 152
9 Looking forward and back: building futures and encoding
pasts in governance 185
10 Strategy in governance: communities and their futures
reimagined and reconstructed 200
11 Transitions reconsidered: navigating dilemmas, negotiating
futures, affecting identities 223
12 If people don’t like it: resistance, backlash and counterstrategy 253
13 Good governance as a precondition and goal in sustainability
transitions 267
14 Conclusion: strategy in governance for transition 293
Index 301

Erscheinungsdatum	24.04.2024
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-0353-2399-0 / 1035323990
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2399-9 / 9781035323999
Zustand	Neuware