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oapen-20.500.12657-527532023-07-04T12:17:24Z The Politics of Green Transformations Scoones, Ian Leach, Melissa Newell, Peter Biodiversity Climate Change Conservation Environmental economics Environmental policy Environmental studies Sustainability Sustainable development bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy & protocols Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental role in financing innovation and technology for green transformations. The book also highlights the role of citizens, as innovators, entrepreneurs, green consumers and members of social movements. Green transformations must be both ‘top-down’, involving elite alliances between states and business, but also ‘bottom up’, pushed by grassroots innovators and entrepreneurs, and part of wider mobilisations among civil society. The chapters in the book draw on international examples to emphasise how contexts matter in shaping pathways to sustainability Written by experts in the field, this book will be of great interest to researchers and students in environmental studies, international relations, political science, development studies, geography and anthropology, as well as policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability. 2022-02-10T12:47:52Z 2022-02-10T12:47:52Z 2015 book ONIX_20220210_9781317601128_8 9781317601128 9781315747378 9781138792906 9781138792890 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52753 eng Pathways to Sustainability application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781317601128.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315747378 10.4324/9781315747378 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781317601128 9781315747378 9781138792906 9781138792890 Routledge 238 open access
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Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental role in financing innovation and technology for green transformations. The book also highlights the role of citizens, as innovators, entrepreneurs, green consumers and members of social movements. Green transformations must be both ‘top-down’, involving elite alliances between states and business, but also ‘bottom up’, pushed by grassroots innovators and entrepreneurs, and part of wider mobilisations among civil society. The chapters in the book draw on international examples to emphasise how contexts matter in shaping pathways to sustainability Written by experts in the field, this book will be of great interest to researchers and students in environmental studies, international relations, political science, development studies, geography and anthropology, as well as policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability.
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